FROM MSNBC shill factory

Well... you don't just go on a cull of duty on foreign species you brought in long ago without informing the locals well in advance, with the obvious environmental implications looming overhead-literally (bioamplified poison) this sounds like they are taking one for the team here. "oh yeah uhh it was us, but uhhh its for your own good"

Mass bird die-off: Feds poisoned them
South Dakota birds were eating from cattle feed lots, leaving waste on equipment


YANKTON, S.D. — When birds started falling dead in Yankton on Monday, there was understandable alarm.

There have been several recent mass die-offs of birds in various parts of the United States and even Sweden, and explanations have ranged from some sort of climate change-related cause to the birds running into each other aloft.

But there's an absolute explanation for the Yankton event: The U.S. government poisoned them.

The mystery started Monday, NBC station KNBN in Rapid City, S.D., reported.
Scattered across the snow along a stretch of Second Street were the frozen bodies of dead starlings. Their bodies were everywhere, according to witnesses like Alison Brown.

"The street where we park and the sidewalks were just covered with them," Brown told the station.
Animal control officers picked up hundreds of birds on Monday, and more then turned up, bringing the total to more than 300.

Brown said she had been wondering if these deaths were connected to other mass animal deaths, like the 5,000 blackbirds killed on New Year's Eve in Arkansas.

"You know, the first thing that comes to mind is all the reports we've seen about the birds and fish," Brown said.
'Like an Alfred Hitchcock'

At first, Yankton Animal Control Officer Lisa Brasel said that the authorities "thought the birds didn't migrate, and got cold and froze to death."

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Think of that virus that killed them off! The nerve of it!- Fad

FROM Auburnpub.com

55 buffalo die mysteriously on southern Cayuga County farm


Sempronius buffalo farmer Peter Head has lost 55 animals to a mysterious illness since October, but autopsies have shown no clear cause of death.

"We're going nuts down here trying to figure out what's going on," he said. "This is going to put me out of business. That's half my frickin' herd."

Head and his wife Deborah have run PDH Buffalo Farm on Route 41A for nine years. This year, 17 of his 23 calves died and he has stopped selling meat as a precaution.

"I don't want to be selling buffalo meat when I don't know what's going on here," he said.

Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine conducted necropsies on several of the carcasses but found only dehydration, Head said.

Ron Podolak of the Cayuga County Soil and Water Conservation District said there is no indication that disease is spreading to neighboring farms.

"In my career, I don't remember anything quite like this," Podolak said. "There's die-offs, but usually they can determine what it is right away and treat them. ... I just wish there was something more we could do to help Pete. This is a catastrophic loss for him."

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