Unprecedented: ‘Cataclysmic’ die-off of birds on entire West Coast — Beaches covered with dead bodies — Professor: It’s tragic… never seen anything like this…

die-off of birds on entire West Coast

Unprecedented: ‘Cataclysmic’ die-off of birds on entire West Coast — Beaches covered with dead bodies — Professor: It’s tragic… never seen anything like this… We ignore it at our peril… Canary in the coalmine for us… Scrambling to figure out what’s going on with ecosystem (VIDEOS) (ENENews, Jan 9, 2015):

Statesman Journal, Jan 2, 2015 (emphasis added): Why is the beach covered in dead birds?…  “I’ve never seen that many before”… a mass die-off [is] going on along the entire West Coast… “To be this lengthy and geographically widespread, I think is kind of unprecedented,” [said Phillip Johnson of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition].

Oregonian, Jan 6, 2015: Dave Nuzum, a wildlife biologist… said his office continues to field calls from concerned beach-goers who come across a grisly scene: Common murres and Cassin’s auklets dead on the beach in great numbers… Oregon is the cataclysm’s epicenter… He doesn’t expect the crush of deaths to let up any time soon… [It’s] up to 100 times greater than normal annual death rates.

Prof. Julia Parrish, Univ. of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Science, Jan 6, 2015: This is the worst wreck of cassins auklets that we’ve ever seen on the West Coast… Certainly we are concerned… Is it that there’s less of their food, or perhaps that food has changed its distribution?… How many cassins may actually be suffering in this particular mortality event? We’re working with oceanographers and atmospheric scientists to try and discover whether there’s something in the environment which is signaling a difference, signaling a change. >> Full broadcast

Prof. Parrish #2, Jan 6, 2015: We’re seeing some adults wash up… The bumper crop [born this year] can’t quite explain [this]… We’re easily seeing tens of thousands, if not actually more… Normally [they] can exist out in the N. Pacific [far] from the coastline over the winter. We think that the population for some reason has snugged up to the coast… Unfortunately the cassins are the canary in the coalmine for us, so they’re telling us something is going on. To put it mildly, we’re still scrambling to figure out what’s going on with the ecosystem… Of course, everybody always wants to point the finger at climate change. The thing about climate change is it’s a very slow, steady change. >> Full broadcast

CBC, Jan 7, 2014: More than 100,000 carcasses… have been found… up to 100 times the normal number are washing ashore… “It’s a tragic event… We have never seen a die-off of Cassin’s like this, so that in and of itself says something” [said Parrish].

CBC News excerpts, Jan. 6, 2015:

  • CBC: It is a West Coast mystery — a mass die-off.
  • Prof. Parrish: [It’s] certainly indicating to us that there is something wrong.
  • CBC: Necropsies show no disease, no viruses, no bacteria.
  • Parrish: Tens of thousands of birds dead on the beach is something that we just can’t ignore — we ignore that at our peril.
  • Full broadcast here

2 thoughts on “Unprecedented: ‘Cataclysmic’ die-off of birds on entire West Coast — Beaches covered with dead bodies — Professor: It’s tragic… never seen anything like this…”

  1. As one who grew up on the San Francisco Bay, and spent my life very close to its waters…………my home in the bay area overlooked the entire bay, I cannot bear to go and see it any longer. Barnacles have replaced sea animals, and if my beloved birds are dying, we are not far behind.
    I still live very close to the waters…….but cannot bear to see the destruction those rotten bastards in Japan have wrought. I hope there is a special radioactive hell for all of them.

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  2. Another problem I forgot to mention is the fact that the vulture animals, so kindly put here by nature, will not touch these birds. They can smell or feel the radioactive poisons, so the bodies will just rot there.

    There are no services to safely dispose of these bodies……..it is sick to deny what is so obvious.

    I saw that bottled drinking water has gone up a full 50% in a week. From a dollar a bottle to $1.50……..and all water is privatized. I tried buying stock in Black Mountain water years ago………………all private, nobody can buy in.

    Safe food and water will soon be the biggest problem. I noted that both dreadful political parties were careful to have all food and drink for their conventions to be carefully screened for radioactive content. They know, yet do nothing. That is the most evil travesty of all.

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