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Uploader scaled the raw numbers of bird deaths into portions of 100,000 deaths, so that most numbers displayed in the chart are small whole numbers. Technical note: most SVG code was automatically generated by the "Horizontal bar charts" spreadsheet linked at User:RCraig09/Excel to XML for SVG. Additions and adjustments were made in a text editor.
The birds showed signs of physical trauma, leading one ornithologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission to speculate the blackbirds might have been killed by lightning, high-altitude hail or possibly fireworks. The birds were sent to laboratories in Georgia and Wisconsin for necropsies to determine the cause of death.
On its website, The American Bird Conservancy, referenced three studies, which showed, an estimated low of 140,000 bird deaths, up to 679,089 on the highest end.
The Beebe, Arkansas bird deaths were repeated again on New Year's Eve of the following year, 2011, with the reported number of dead birds being 5,000. [14] On 3 January 2011, more than five hundred starlings, red-winged blackbirds, and sparrows fell dead in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. [15]
Wildlife experts in at least six states are investigating the cause of the bird deaths. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
Since 2022, over 79 million birds have been impacted, with a notable increase to 11.4 million in December, up from 1.3 million in October. ... Avian flu, or bird flu, has been causing bird deaths ...
H5N1 influenza virus is a type of influenza A virus which mostly infects birds. H5N1 flu is a concern because its global spread may constitute a pandemic threat. The yardstick for human mortality from H5N1 is the case-fatality rate (CFR); the ratio of the number of confirmed human deaths resulting from infection of H5N1 to the number of those confirmed cases of infection with the virus.
The bird deaths on Chicago's shores also prompted the Milwaukee County Zoo to close its aviary "out of an abundance of caution." In an announcement , the zoo said the closure would last "for the ...