MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

Officials are trying to determine what killed more than 200 birds in the South Dakota city of Yankton.  The dead starlings were found in a downtown area where they had been congregating instead of migrating for the winter. Yankton Animal Control Officer Lisa Brasel tells the Press & Dakotan that a veterinarian didn’t immediately find anything wrong with them.  Read more.

200 dead cows in Wisconsin are not the only dead livestock being reported in the world today. Over the weekend a report of 7000 dead buffalo and cows from Vietnam is also making news. These two reports, coming on the heels of the dead birds and dead fish reports in recent weeks, seem to hype up this dead animal mystery.  Read more.

People on the north coast of Labrador say scores of dead seals have been washing ashore since early December. A conservation officer with the area’s Inuit government estimated late last week that hundreds of adult and young seals have died in the area between Hopedale and Makkovik this winter.  Read more.

The 200 dead cattle were discovered on a farm field on 4th Street in Amherst. Sunday, the bodies were taken out in semi-loads to be disposed of.  The farm’s veterinarian says preliminary results show the animals died of acute interstitial pneumonia, also known as AIP. Samples from the dead animals were sent to Madison for testing.  Read more.

In the port area of Andenes in Norway, normally rich with birds, Eider ducks are dying like flies.  Read more.

Add Middle Tennessee to the list of places where flocks of birds have shown up dead. Earlier in the week, birds were found dead in Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Texas. Now, more that 100 dead birds were recently found in Wilson County, causing the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to investigate.  Read more.