AP Photo | The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins
Na noite de 31 de Dezembro para 1 de Janeiro, mais de mil pássaros mortos caíram na cidade de Beebe, no Estado norte-americano do Arkansas. A “chuva de aves” incluiu tordos-sargentos e pássaros-pretos-da-asa-vermelha, esclarecem as autoridades locais.
AP Photo | The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins
As autoridades enviaram 65 dos pássaros mortos para serem examinados, segundo noticiou o site da BBC. Mas já adiantaram que as aves não parecem ter sido envenenadas.
Alguns responsáveis apontam o fogo-de-artifício dessa noite como possível causa de morte daqueles animais. Podem ter sido atingidos em pleno voo ou terem ficado assustados com o barulho, terem saído dos ninhos e acabarem por morrer em voo, com ataques cardíacos.
The thousands of birds that fell from the sky just before midnight New Year's Eve in Arkansas likely died from massive trauma, according to a preliminary report released Monday.
The birds, most of which were dead when they were found, were red-winged blackbirds and starlings. They were found within a one-mile area of Beebe, about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said.
Full diagnostic necropsies performed on the birds at the NWHC lab revealed internal hemorrhaging. Tests for an array of pesticides were negative; results are pending for additional chemical toxins and infectious diseases.
It appears unusually loud noises, reported shortly before the birds began to fall, caused the birds to flush from a roost. Additional fireworks in the area may have forced the birds to fly at a lower altitude than normal and hit houses, vehicles, trees and other objects. Blackbirds have poor night vision and typically do not fly at night.
Quando é que os Homens cuidarão melhor dos co-habitantes do planeta Terra?! Isto só nos pode entristecer...
'Geração Green'
06.01.2011
Referências:
Green Savers
Ashley County Leddger
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