Re: Make`s me think about all the fish also...

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I remember the story and before that it was thousands of birds that

dropped out of the sky in AK and dead fish about 80 miles away from that.

Thousands of dead birds in Italy and other countries. Cows and water buffalo in

VietNam. This has all been in the past few months. Oh, and all the dead whales

after the oil spill and recently all the hundreds of baby dolphins!

SSR

Just recently does anyone remember hearing about all the dead

fish coming ashore along the coastline in Ca? Thousands

of dead fish.

I wonder what will be next? I shudder to think.

nne~

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8,000 mallards dead from respiratory infection

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/article_7971e1f0-4f43-11e0-b626-001cc\

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8,000 mallards dead from respiratory infection

Woster Journal staff Rapid City Journal | Posted: Tuesday, March 15, 2011

2:24 pm | (0) Comments

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field supervisor

Larson of Pierre pickups up dead ducks in a small farm pond north of

Pierre in late January. More than 8,000 ducks died of what wildlife disease

specialist believe was a respiratory disease connected to moldy corn. .

...Thousands of mallard ducks found dead in small warm-water ponds north of

Pierre are believed to have died from a respiratory disease tied to moldy corn,

state and federal wildlife specialists said Tuesday.

More than 8,000 mallards and a few pintail ducks were collected by personnel

from the state Game, Fish & Parks Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service in late January about 16 miles north of Pierre. By examining some of the

birds, federal wildlife disease specialists determined that it was likely they

died from aspergillosis, a respiratory infection caused by inhaling spores of

the aspergillus fungi.

The birds were probably exposed to the fungi while feeding on moldy corn in a

silage pile at a livestock feedlot near the small ponds they were using after

nearby Lake Oahe froze up, said Andy Lindbloom, GF & P regional game manager in

Pierre.

" Our belief is that there was probably a hot spot in that grain, " Lindbloom said

Tuesday. " We had a combination of factors with the right weather effects and a

grain pile that had fermented with the toxin. And the ducks got into it. "

Lindbloom said warmer weather has opened more areas for feeding and the

remaining ducks have dispersed.

There has been no sign of further die-offs.

Contact Woster at 394-8413 or kevin.woster@...

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> I remember the story and before that it was thousands of birds that

> dropped out of the sky in AK and dead fish about 80 miles away from that.

> Thousands of dead birds in Italy and other countries. Cows and water buffalo

in

> VietNam. This has all been in the past few months. Oh, and all the dead

whales

> after the oil spill and recently all the hundreds of baby dolphins!

> SSR

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> Just recently does anyone remember hearing about all the dead

> fish coming ashore along the coastline in Ca? Thousands

> of dead fish.

> I wonder what will be next? I shudder to think.

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> nne~

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8,000 mallards dead from respiratory infection

Several hundred sea gulls have died in San Francisco. Autopsy revealed

aspergillus in the lungs. The local rendering plants have denied that their

waste caused the illness. The Sea Gulls eat the waste, therefore inhale the

spores

There was also an earlier comment on the dead fish in the Long Beach CA marina.

Apparently, the fish were blown in by a large coastal storm, crowded in the

marina in an area where there is oxygen deprivation. The fish used up all of the

oxygen and died of suffocation. It is a truly stinky mess.

[] Re: Make`s me think about all the fish also...

8,000 mallards dead from respiratory infection

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/article_7971e1f0-4f43-11e0-b626-001cc\

4c002e0.html

8,000 mallards dead from respiratory infection

Woster Journal staff Rapid City Journal | Posted: Tuesday, March 15,

2011 2:24 pm | (0) Comments

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field supervisor

Larson of Pierre pickups up dead ducks in a small farm pond north of

Pierre in late January. More than 8,000 ducks died of what wildlife disease

specialist believe was a respiratory disease connected to moldy corn. .

..Thousands of mallard ducks found dead in small warm-water ponds north of

Pierre are believed to have died from a respiratory disease tied to moldy corn,

state and federal wildlife specialists said Tuesday.