Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Hebei,China- Unexplained large magpie die off #birdflu #h5n1

Hebei Hengshui Lake mysterious death of the body over a large number of Magpie Forest 
 at 02:27 on December 28, 2011  



 (reporter Li Haiju) "magpie call, happy to." December 25, the very fact that like outdoor sports play found in the Hengshui Lake, Hubei Hengshui embankment of a forest full of dead magpies, some still hanging on the branches, the number has nearly only.
Magpie carcasses all over the woods
December 26, reporter driving from Hengshui in Hengshui Lake Avenue and the intersection of Hubei levee embankment along the north east, south embankment is Hengshui Lake, north is a river embankment. Looking ahead, the distribution of many forest Shucha Shang magpie nest, about two kilometer road, north and south sides of road deaths began magpie.
Reporters parking access road south of the woods, the scene inside the shocking death of magpies everywhere, mostly single, and some two dead, with some forty-five died together. Look up, the branches are hung with dead magpie. The Magpies are eyes staring eyes of death, for straight legs, feathers looked very clean, no trauma. There are some magpies body apart, looking as if swallowed by other animals, leaving only a little debris and feathers ....
Reporters live rough estimate, about 200 meters east and west, north and south about five sixty meters of woods, at least only the inexplicable death of hundreds of magpie.
Magpies cause of death opinions
Why so many magpies death? Local residents have speculated.
Virus? Some people say these deaths is not large magpie was infected with a virus such as avian flu or something. So many dead magpie, open body away, but also by other animal bite, the virus will continue to spread and affect other birds and even humans and animals? Edge of the woods is the Hengshui Lake, will not affect the Hengshui Lake where the fish?
Dong E? Some people say that magpie is not because no food, or is difficult to resist the cold, Donge died?
Poisoning? Some people say, Hengshui lake there are many farms, farmers use pesticides and fertilizers, will not be near the water or food contaminated, resulting in the death magpie groups?
Experts estimate that due to food poisoning
Hengshui an animal experts say, is not the bird flu outbreak in winter season, the Magpies will not be another bird flu. Although the magpie food more complex, but in the cold winter, food is very small, so magpies will consume large amounts of garbage, but there is often toxic waste, is easy for them to poisoning. Magpie is a group of feeding birds, often large-scale search to go eat, and because a large magpie individuals, food intake is also large, once poisoned, would cause massive death. According to analysis, Hengshui Lake is a large number of magpies died of food poisoning caused by the specific cause of death to be dissected in order to reach a conclusion. The expert reminds the masses, not mass consumption of the death of Hengshui Lake magpie, so as not to cause poisoning. Magpie department or nearby residents should clean up the body, dug more than a meter deep pit at the landfill, so as not to pollute the environment.
December 26 afternoon, the reporter a large number of deaths on the magpie call the Office of Hengshui Lake District Management Committee, the Office is responsible for protecting the bird's Lihong Kai (sound) that had not had such a thing, magpies may be poisoned, They immediately went to the scene to view, and the mass death of the body to deal with the Magpies.

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