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South Dakota: Game Agency Investigates Mysterious Deaths of 100 Pigeons in Downtown Rapid City

02/05/2012 Leave a comment Go to comments

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) – The South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department is investigating about 100 suspicious deaths in downtown Rapid City – and the victims are all pigeons.

John Kanta, regional wildlife manager for the department, tells the Associated Press that dozens of bird corpses have been recovered since Thursday afternoon. The deaths are mysterious enough that samples have been flown to a lab in Madison, Wis., in hopes of determining the cause.

Kanta says the birds could have been sickened by mold or bacteria, but officials suspect they were poisoned.

Kanta says officials are ‘worried about the incidental loss we might see with other animals’ – specifically peregrine falcons.” Read more.

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