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Old 01-31-2009, 04:15 AM   #1
judykott
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Angry Federal Agency Kills Thousands of Birds with Pesticide

http://www.naturalnews.com/025472.html
by Susanne Morrone, C.N.C., citizen journalist

(NaturalNews) A series of articles have appeared daily from January 24 to the 27, 2009, in the Jersey Journal and Star-Ledger regarding the large numbers of dead birds falling from the sky alarming residents in Somerset County, New Jersey. The black carcasses of starling were strewn on cars, porches, lawns and snow-covered roadways. Many residents were unaware that the deaths of some 5,000 starlings were as a result of intentional culling.

Imagine going outside and counting 150 dead birds on your property. On January 24, 2009, New Jersey resident, Andrea Kepic, called the police to report this very situation. She was told she would have to clean up the birds. Police read from a prepared statement recommending using a shovel, gloves and plastic bags to get rid of them. She planned to freeze one or two and take them to Rutgers University for an autopsy. "You have to wonder, what are the ramifications, and are they telling the truth?" she said.

Spokeswoman for the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services, Donna Leusner, confirmed the dead birds were part of a USDA program to reduce the European starling population. Although the state health department was not part of the culling program, they had been notified of plans to feed the birds a "controlled substance." Leusner also read from a USDA advisory which states "the dead birds pose no hazard to people or pets because the substance has been metabolized inside the bird."

USDA spokeswoman, Carol Bannerman, said a bird-specific pesticide called DRC-1339 was used. This pesticide is commonly used to protect farms and feedlot operations from European starlings, considered an invasive species by the USDA. The starlings were troubling an area farm where they were eating feed intended for cattle and chickens and defecating in feeding bowls. Federal employees dispensed the pesticide on Friday. Bannerman said, "Birds that ingest it usually die within three days, so the die-off should have ended by yesterday." She also said the poison is not specific to starlings, but USDA workers closely monitor its application to make sure it targets only the intended bird population. Workers lure the intended birds to a designated area with bait in wooden trays. Once they are certain the bait has attracted the birds they want to cull, they mix poison in the pellets.

On January 26, the USDA acknowledged making a few mistakes by not more fully warning people around the Princeton Township farm where it applied a pesticide on Friday to kill 3,000 to 5,000 starlings. While the pesticide was used in the past in densely populated New Jersey, the starlings moved far off Mercer County farm where they ingested it.

State agriculture and wildlife officials were notified two weeks prior along with Somerset County officials. But the Franklin Township`s administrator, Ken Daly, said "The township was told too little, too late. The only notice given was a second-hand phone call from the county health director that somewhere, sometime the USDA would be culling birds. No one knew what that meant. If we had known it was coming, we could have gotten word out to residents."
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Old 02-01-2009, 09:11 AM   #2
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Question Birds falling out of the sky ~ news video

BIRDS FALLING OUT OF THE SKY

News Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5k7XCdR6vM

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Birds falling from the sky in NJ; they say it was a planned poisoning through seeding??!!!! Come on! How dumb do they think we are! Wild, unconstrained birds just happened to eat all at the same time, and all died in the same period??!!??

Now, more breaking news as I write this outline! New reporting of birds falling from the sky in Queens and Brooklyn!

This has happened before, as shown in this video, after serious chemtrail spraying over a remote town in Australia, and also in Russia in this video. Many more have died, and are presently dying all over the world. Look it up right here...

The U.S. bird population had dropped by half, by 2007; how many more have disappeared by now in 2009!

See the remainder of this under more info from DeepKnowledge at youtube link.
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Old 02-01-2009, 03:56 PM   #3
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Default Re: Agency Kills with 'Pesticide'

"Frogs in a frying pan" may not be birds.

birds in a coal mine


Unfortunately the sense of smell diminishes within a short period of time (minutes).

suggestions:
Keep your nose clean (literally), Be Aware, prepare, relax. Err on the side of caution. This is a global issue - not just America.

R95/P95/etc

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Old 02-01-2009, 08:54 PM   #4
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Default Re: Federal Agency Kills Thousands of Birds with Pesticide

Just my two cents:
I am a zoo vet's daughter..
www.wallachfiles.com


My initial feelings are perhaps poisoning (which simple testing will show!!)
but may be Cosmic changes-did the birds go thru an energy-magnetic
flux?

They do not appear to be with sickness-otherwise there would be varying groups in the throws of dying...

I would increase usage of drinking aloe,washing hands,putting vicks vapo(eucalyptus oils) rub on hands and nose to prevent sicknesses as a precaution....Increase use of anti-oxidants by triple until you hear what was cause of bird deaths so as to protect your immune system!!!!!!!

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Old 02-02-2009, 01:56 AM   #5
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Default Re: Federal Agency Kills Thousands of Birds with Pesticide

I belong to Albertabird and was a volunteer at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary for 5 years and we noticed a huge decline in Swainsons Hawks a few years back,we had heard in one night 10,000 died down in South America. Pesticides are definately a problem.

Swainson's Hawk has suffered population declines since the first half of the century and was Blue-listed in the United States from 1972 to 1982. It has since been placed on the National Audubon's List of Special Concern in 1986. It is now listed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a Category 3C candidate. It should be noted that the Swainson's Hawk was removed from the active Federal list because it was found to be more abundant than previously thought; it is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN due to its wide overall range[5]. It remains listed as a threatened species by the California Department of Fish and Game as it has been since 1983.

A major cause of Swainson's Hawk population decline was pesticide use in its wintering grounds of Argentina. Farmers there were using pesticides (DDT and monocrotophos) to control grasshopper and locust infestations, and the Swainson's Hawks were ingesting these pesticides in several different ways, but mainly by gorging themselves on the insects as they lay dying. The U.S. has worked with Argentine farmers to resolve this problem.[6]
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