I just heard that there are now 500 dead birds in Pointe. Coupee Parsh, Louisiana
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But one expert said he can't discount weather as a cause.
"Thousands of birds encountered something, whether it was a lighting strike or hail or something, and that caused the trauma and death," said Robert Meese, an avian ecologist at the University of California-Davis. "I don't see any way that they could have flown into obstructions, because then the birds should have been at the base of the objects. ... This was a scattering."

That's a real coincident, that Kerwins friend is studying at that university. I will ask Kerwin if he ask her if she knows anything from this strange situation.
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Thanks Lola, Janet, Patti and Dale for the information.

Kerwins friend who made the picture is studying in  Davis (Cal) for a year. I have no idea in which part of California Davis is situated, but probably you will know.
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I expect that someone sent this message but I couldn't find it.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission says more than 1,000 dead black birds have fallen from the sky in Beebe.

The agency says its enforcement officers began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. Friday. Officials say the birds fell over a one-mile area of the city and that no other birds were found outside of that area.

Some of the dead birds will be sent for testing to the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison, Wis.

Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe says that similar events have occurred elsewhere. In other cases, she says test results "usually were inconclusive," although the birds showed physical trauma. She says the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail.

http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/More-Than-1-000-Dead-Birds-Fall-from-Sky-in/DkLyvNjiSEW6eGOw3EB8Tw.cspx

Very strange!!!
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Who knows this bird?
A friend of Kerwin visit the US and came home with this picture. She asked Kerwin if he knew this bird and he asked me if I knew this bird. I said it's a Blue Jay, but he wasn't satisfied with my answer. He said the Blue Jay hasn't such white feathers on his breast. So now I ask you, who knows this bird?
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Happy New Year for all of you!!
I just made my first walk in this new year through lots of firework to wish the neighbors a Happy New Year.
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Yes a real cool video, thanks Donna.
Good news Bobbi that the Bittern is coming back in Ireland, I hope it's not only for the cold weather. Things are strange with this weather. Yesterday My son saw a Bittern in Amsterdam. He said it was very cool to see him but I think the Bittern will have a difficult time.
I'm doing the best I can with feeding the birds.
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Mine is a rat-rat too.
And I have different kind, at least 2, this one and I saw a brown rat!!!
When you want them, you have to come to get them.
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My "R" is... RAT-on-my-peanut-feeder! Eeeeeeee-uuuuuuu and BIG ICK! 

Does this make it a bird? What's the thing from Philosophy class?

Some birds feed on peanut feeders.
A rat is on my peanut feeder.
Therefore, this rat is a bird.

Hmmm Bobbie, a rat is a bird? 
But I understand what you mean, I have one too, a rat that behavous like a bird.
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[Y]

Y is for  Yellowlegs, the Lesser one

There are a lot of birds starting with yellow!
I choose the Lesser Yellowlegs, because I have seen one. It was a lost bird from I suppose the US. It was very sensational for me and lots of other people to see him.   
The Lesser Yellowlegs is a shorebird.
Here are 2 pictures from the internet.





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X is for Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus

I never heard of this bird before but I found him in my Petersond birdbook.
The Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus or Yellow-headed Blackbird is a medium-sized blackbird.
Adults have a pointed bill. The adult male is mainly black with a yellow head and breast; they have a white wing patch sometimes only visible in flight. The adult female is mainly brown with a dull yellow throat and breast.



The X is a difficult letter but now I have (for the first time) the opportunity to start a letter.
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