ApocaDocs: Spray blamed for new bird deaths

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Posted Mon Jun 1 2009: from Sydney Australian:


	Spray blamed for new bird deaths http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1243883560 BIRDS are again dropping dead from the sky in a new toxic drama in Western Australia. Nearly 200 ibises, ravens, gulls, ducks and a pelican were found dead or frothing and convulsing in Perth at the weekend. The discovery comes a year after the mysterious mass death of 200 birds only a few kilometres away and two years after the Esperance lead contamination scandal which emptied the skies over the holiday town of Esperance for months when thousands of birds were poisoned. The Department of Environment and Conservation yesterday blamed the latest deaths on the pesticide Fenthion, but said it was unclear whether it was a deliberate bird poisoning or had been caused by someone illegally dumping pesticide.

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'Doc Jim says:

Perhaps... this is what the prophet Chicken Little was talking about.