So many dead birds! WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I skimmed the WashPost article. If I were to take a sad guess, it would be that the cicada poisons are poisoning the birds too.

Are we fricking stupid, or what?!

When are people going to learn you poison the critters, you poison your environment, and ultimately you poison yourself too.

This. Humans are a plague.

I literally want to throat punch my neighbors who drown their yard in every pesticide and herbicide. We live near woods and a water shed stream too.

[Anonymous]

I have wondered if the fungal infection that has affected many of the cicadas could be killing the birds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I skimmed the WashPost article. If I were to take a sad guess, it would be that the cicada poisons are poisoning the birds too.

Are we fricking stupid, or what?!

When are people going to learn you poison the critters, you poison your environment, and ultimately you poison yourself too.

This. Humans are a plague.

I literally want to throat punch my neighbors who drown their yard in every pesticide and herbicide. We live near woods and a water shed stream too.

+1

I had one kid because I'm human and have a drive to parent, but I want to leave fewer humans on this wonderful and possibly unique planet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neighbors probably spraying because of the cicadas.

I thought about that, but realistically some people spray every year. We have never had dead birds before.

I have no idea what is happening, but it is possible. If people are spraying more for cicadas, and the poison is in the cicadas and then birds eat the cicadas like hot cakes (because they are everywhere and they can gorge on them) the birds might be getting a huge dose. Anything that ate that bird (like a cat) would get a great big dose, too. It’s called bio accumulation and it moves up the food chain. Also how we end up with pesticides in our bodies - we don’t absorb through air, but food.

[Anonymous]

Why are people saying, "we need to figure out what's going on"?? How is there any question about it?

Hint: If you poison the food that an animal eats, and then the animal eats that food, the animal will be poisoned too.

Everyone needs to stop spraying toxic chemicals.

[Anonymous]

Adults or babies?

Have found several babies fallen out of the nest. It happens every year but we have a lot of nesting birds (we have 20 acres).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are people saying, "we need to figure out what's going on"?? How is there any question about it?

Hint: If you poison the food that an animal eats, and then the animal eats that food, the animal will be poisoned too.

Everyone needs to stop spraying toxic chemicals.

Because we don’t know what’s going on. It could be an infectious process, like when all of the crows died 17 years ago.

[Anonymous]

The problem is extending beyond cicada plagued areas and it looks like this started in some areas in December 2020.

[Anonymous]

Covid has mutated and is now infecting all the birds ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have wondered if the fungal infection that has affected many of the cicadas could be killing the birds.

I learned today that the blight infecting cicadas is known as "butt fungus". Really.

[Anonymous]

Keep your cats inside. You don't want your cats eating these crippled, grounded birds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have wondered if the fungal infection that has affected many of the cicadas could be killing the birds.

I learned today that the blight infecting cicadas is known as "butt fungus". Really.

Yes, the butt fungus is weird and gross: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cicadas-fall-prey-drug-producing-fungus-makes-their-butts-fall-180977776/

[Anonymous]

Where do you live that people are so stupid they are trying to poison the cicadas?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep your cats inside. You don't want your cats eating these crippled, grounded birds.

You should always keep your cats inside anyway so they don’t kill birds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Keep your cats inside. You don't want your cats eating these crippled, grounded birds.

You should always keep your cats inside anyway so they don’t kill birds.

+1
Cats kill 2.4 billions birds in America. A YEAR. Keep your dumb felines indoors. https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/