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--- larry mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:09:15 -0800 (PST)
> From: larry mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mystery on Montauk Highway: 100 Dead Birds
>
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> > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 07:08:57 EST
> > Subject: [cosmic_conspiracies] Mystery on Montauk
> Highway: 100 Dead Birds
> >
> >
>
http://www.newsday.com/coverage/current/news/friday/nd5979.htm
> > Mystery on Montauk Highway: 100 Dead Birds
> >
> > by Mitchell Freedman
> > Staff Writer
> >
> > A mystery, of sorts, dropped onto Montauk Highway
> in Bridgehampton
> Tuesday. A
> > flock of dying starlings fell from the utility
> wires and hit the road
> over
> > just a few minutes.
> >
> > "No one has any idea what could have killed
> them," said Virginia Frati,
> > director of the Wildlife Rescue Center of the
> Hamptons, who went to the
> scene
> > to look at the bird kill. "I saw a lot of smashed
> birds," she said.
> >
> > She estimated that more than 100 dead birds were
> on the road and the
> > shoulders, so many that any single cause of death
> would be unlikely.
> >
> > Frati said that if the birds had been chased into
> the path of a truck by
> a
> > predator such as a hawk, only a few would have
> been hit. If they had been
>
> > poisoned, they would have died over a longer
> period of time, and not all
> in
> > one place.
> >
> > Michael Lowndes, a spokesman for the Long Island
> Power Authority - the
> birds
> > were found just east of the LIPA substation in
> Bridgehampton - said the
> only
> > way a bird on a power line could be electrocuted
> is if it were grounded,
> and
> > it would be highly unlikely that a hundred birds
> would be grounded at
> once.
> >
> > "I've never heard of it happening," he said.
> >
> > One eyewitness, Francis Hernandez of Sag Harbor,
> said he was driving in
> the
> > area about 8 a.m. on Tuesday and saw birds
> spiraling down from the wires
> and
> > onto the roadway. "They were just spinning down,"
> he said. "Falling down
> like
> > leaves into the road and dying...I've never seen
> anything like it." He
> drove
> > back past the same area a few minutes later and
> saw dozens of birds on
> the
> > ground. "They were still struggling. They were
> hitting the black top but
> > still moving. I picked one up. They were still
> warm," Hernandez said.
> >
> > Frati said there were no burn marks on the feet
> of the dead birds, but
> that
> > it appeared every one she looked at had blood in
> the back of its throat.
> >
> > But the idea that they were poisoned raises a
> different question.
> Starlings
> > are commonly found in the company of grackles and
> red-winged blackbirds,
> and
> > none of those species were found at the scene.
> >
> > Some of the dead birds were collected and sent to
> a state Department of
> > Environmental Conservation lab upstate for
> analysis. But test results are
> not
> > expected for several weeks.
> >
> > The state Department of Transportation, which is
> responsible for
> maintaining
> > state roads, removed the carnage.
> >
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