Residents and those passing by near Dogwood Hills subdivision on Boyd Creek Highway Sunday afternoon were met with an unusual scene. Dozens of dead birds littered the highway and surrounding fields after falling from the sky.Sgt. Robert Stoffle of the Sevier County Sheriff's Department said a call about the birds came in around 1:15 p.m. He said a witness reported seeing the birds in flight before turning back around to see them on the ground.
"It covered one lane of traffic," Stoffle said of the bodies of the birds. Estimates of the number of birds varied from between 30 and 60 up to 300. They appeared to be starlings.
While the vast majority of the birds were dead by the time The Mountain Press photographer arrived, several were still alive, convulsing and flopping their wings on the ground.
A count of the birds on the scene stopped at around 50, when not even half of the visible birds were tallied. Perhaps dozens more were scattered in a nearby field, which was flooded from the recent rainfall. As far as 60 yards from the main site of the birds, individual starlings were found.
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첫댓글 뭔가.....어딘가 뒤틀린것같은 맘입니다.
전부터 관찰하고 있으셨던 분들은
대부분 이미 짐작하고 계시겠습니다만,
관련 현상이
지난 2011년 연초부터 두드러지게 발생하며,
이후 각 해의 연초만 되면, 마치 단계별로 더욱 두드러지고 있는 양상인 것 같습니다.....
관련 현상이 발생한 전 세계 지역 분포를 분석하고 파악하는 것도 좋을 것 같습니다.....
자료 고맙습니다 나수 님.
힘내시고, 좋은 밤되십시요.
동물들의 잇따른 떼죽음 관련 참고,
12월 28일 호주 동부에서 물고기 떼죽음
http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/fish-kill-at-tallow-beach/1700691/
12월 28일 미국 사라 소타 플로리다 해변에서 물고기 떼죽음
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/12/28/4331951/sarasota-county-removes ...
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