Published: April 29th, 2012 at 4:37 pm ET
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Title: Muttonbird numbers lower
Source: Radio New Zealand
Date: Apr. 30, 2012
The Japanese nuclear meltdown may have reduced New Zealand’s muttonbird population.
A study near Auckland has found a third [...] failed to return this summer after spending the southern winter in their northern hemisphere base near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Department of Conservation researcher Graeme Taylor says the birds that did return were in a poor condition. [...]
Read the report here
More radio from New Zealand: Peter Daley on the Fukushima Radiation Cloud over Australia & NZ
Published: April 29th, 2012 at 4:37 pm ET
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xdrfox
December 28, 2011 at 8:35 pm
NZ muttonbirds tested for Fukushima radiation
Dec 22, 2011
New Zealand muttonbirds are being studied to see if they were affected by radiation from Japan’s damaged nuclear power plant.
Samples are being taken from the birds as part of the research into the effects of radiation from the Fukushima plant, which was severely damaged following the earthquake and tsunamis which hit the country in March.
The research aims to determine the degree to which the mutton bird population was exposed to radiation.
Experts have said the Fukushima disaster was responsible for the largest single release of radioactivity into the ocean, threatening wildlife and fisheries in the region.
Millions of the birds, known as sooty shearwaters, come to this
country to breed …
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/nz-muttonbirds-tested-fukushima-radiation-4667207
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xdrfox
3500 Prions Seabirds Found Dead west coast New Zealand
To Mass Animal Death on Thursday, July 14, 2011
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/818/649/3500_Prions_Seabirds_Found_Dead_west_coast_New_Zealand.html
should have come to enenews first!!
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600 birds found dead in and around Christchurch, New Zealand
To Mass Animal Death on Friday, February 10, 2012
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1748/064/
5 to 6 Thousand Dead Birds wash ashore at Wasaga Beach, Canada UPDATE VIDEO
To Mass Animal Death on Sunday, October 23, 2011
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1270/020/
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How many dead canaries does it take for humans to wake the fuku up?
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Obviously, more than 33%. (just a guess)
It WILL become clear. Not sure exactly when. There's no way around it.
We are just at the beginning of a very long and bumpy road.
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repost
"this is not good news… shut em all down now!! london gets more than 4 times this level at times! with 0.50 mcSv/h quick peaks!
Farmland bird numbers fall across Europe August 24, 2011
"Among some of the most endangered farmland species was the grey partridge which has seen numbers decline by over two thirds throughout Europe and by as much as 90% in the UK…."
http://wildlifenews.co.uk/2011/farmland-bird-numbers-fall-across-europe/
"The percentage of yearlings among the 16 species with samples for both normal (< 0.05 µSv/h) and higher radiation levels (≥ 0.05 µSv/h) was 43.32% at radiation levels < 0.05 µSv/h, while it was 73.02% at radiation levels ≥ 0.05 µSv/h. Adult survival rates estimated from these age ratios did not differ significantly from published adult survival rates at radiation levels < 0.05 µSv/h, but did differ significantly from adult survival rates estimated from age ratios at radiation levels ≥ 0.05 µSv/h (Table 1). In addition, the observed minus the expected survival rates from areas with < 0.05 µSv/h and ≥ 0.05 µSv/h differed from each other (paired t-test, t = 3.85, d.f. = 15, P = 0.0016). Restricting these analyses to species with a sample size greater than ten did not change any of these conclusions…"
from this relevant link
http://enenews…
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http://enenews.com/study-increases-in-the-frequency-of-selective-deaths-due-to-mutations-after-fukushima-results-suggest-significant-mortality-costs-of-low-dose-radiation-0-05-microsvh-considered-contami
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1200 + Dead Pelicans in Northern Peru, Same Region as Mass Dolphin Die-Off
To Mass Animal Death on Sunday, April 29, 2012
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2076/695/
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The dolphins appeared in one of Carlin's political cartoons in La Republica of Peru a couple of weeks back, breasting a mudslide of political problems* currently facing the government. So, acknowledged, if not explained.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eUbaOLS2Tiw/T481vSm7WwI/AAAAAAAAByo/HtjxFhENnGo/s1600/huayco.jpg
*It appears that the dead dolphins have equal prominence to the Camisea Gas Field and Conga Gold Mine protests so must be quite big news.
[Disclaimer: this item included as an observation not in any way critical of the current government and President of Peru with whom I have every sympathy: they face a trajectory of great difficulty to accomplish the objectives they have chosen].
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Farmland bird numbers fall across Europe, I posted an article on this about a week or so ago in Off topic !
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luv a good repost xdr
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arclight,
I wrote the man that is doing the necropsy's on the dolphins a few weeks back when the article first appeared, I ask him if he though it could be radiation, He wrote back and said NO WAY, the dolphins swim up and down the coast of south America and North America !
I wrote him back and said, but the fish they eat come across the Pacific from Japans waters !
He has not wrote back yet !
You think they would from the start take readings, anyway with the Pelicans now, most likely a food source I would think !
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the uk has stopped testing and in norway no one has heard of any testing being done (its has a small close knit population so they would know??) the background radiation has largely gone up all over the whole globe in patches and the worst of the daichi contamination is likely to occour over the next 2 springs as it peaks before starting to leech out, and this is the best case scenario as you would appreciate (given for reasons of sanity
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the corporations around the globe have too much to lose if the truth got out.. big agriculture etc would be hit hard.. southern hemisphere countries with low contamination would become the new powerhouses for food.. largely run by wise inscrutable chinese farmers!!
should be interesting!!
power shift about to occour!!
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TOTAL Collapse as we know it ! No hope scenario !
This id what they are avoiding !
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arclight,
So glad you saw the other stories, please everyone, I can not always be here, to post related articles that I have archived, they are for all of you to share with others !
I have compiled these records for all to learn and reflect back to what has been happening !
Click EDIT Button, then click Find on this page, type on key word, example, 'FISH' and all will come up with each new click !
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what is this edit button you spake of xdr??
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arclight.
On your Browser, should be second top word left if you are using IE Internet Explorer, it is the fast way to look for key words on any page you go to !
File | Edit | Veiw | Favorites | Tools | Help |
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A new car will appear and you can type in key word, Click Next, each time it will go to next one, if there are no matches the word is not on page ! .. All words of kind will be highlighted in yellow, click to go down or you can click Previous and go backwards on the page !
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car = bar
LOL
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Man, … I would love a new car !
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lol
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lol! you havent a clue how hard it was following your text with my dyslexia!!
car bar har har!!
on back up chrome but gottit!
ta!
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I'm not a good Computer tech guy huh !
LOL
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Kazakhstan – Environment
"…Kazakhstan's wildlife is in danger of extinction due to the overall level of pollution. According to current estimates, some areas of the nation will not be able to sustain any form of wildlife by the year 2015. In the areas where pollution is the most severe, 11 species of mammals and 19 species of birds and insects are already extinct. As of 2001, 15 mammal species, 15 bird species, 5 types of freshwater fish, and 36 species of plant are listed as threatened. Threatened species include the argali, Aral salmon, great bustard, snow leopard, and tiger. The mongolian wild horse has recently become extinct in the wild…"
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Kazakhstan-ENVIRONMENT.html#b
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Every species has their immune systems compromised allowing naturally resistance to falter…
New and Ongoing Wildlife Mortality Events Nationwide
http://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/mortality_events/ongoing.jsp
The avian cholera is especially disturbing…
Thousands of birds dropping from the sky of avian cholera in Oregon
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/16/11235703-thousands-of-birds-dropping-from-the-sky-of-avian-cholera-in-oregon?lite
We are witness to something so profound in it's nature that it makes you wonder if the all of the ancient prophecies are self fulfilling…
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http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201817256339889828327.0004991bca25af104a22b
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From that article: "A separate study by Ngai Tahu and Te Papa of 30 chicks from the Ti Ti Islands, near Stewart Island, found no trace of radioactive material – making them safe to eat."
SP: It's lucky for the harvesters of mutton birds that the chicks mature in their islands and not in Fukushima. The mature birds eat squid and fish at the northern stages (Fukushima among them) of their incredible journeys migrating (some fly 300 miles a day and as long as a 40,000 mile round trip each year.
Trivia from Wikipedia:
"On August 18, 1961, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported that thousands of crazed sooty shearwaters[8] were sighted on the shores of North Monterey Bay in California regurgitating anchovies, flying into objects and dying on the streets. The incident sparked the interest of local resident Alfred Hitchcock, along with a story about spooky bird behavior by British writer Daphne du Maurier, helping to inspire Hitchcock's 1963 thriller "The Birds," a cautionary tale of nature revolting against man[9] now ranked among the American Film Institute's Top 10 thrillers of the last century.
Scientists looking at the stomach contents of turtles and seabirds gathered in 1961 Monterey Bay ship surveys have found toxin-making algae were present in 79% of the plankton that the creatures ate. "I am pretty convinced that the birds were poisoned" says ocean environmentalist Sibel Bargu of Louisiana State University.
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URL from muttonbird Wikipedia article:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sooty_Shearwater#section_4
SP: HAB (Harmful Algal Bloom) was suspected from toxic septic tanks discharging in the 1961 bird incident. HAB snd LME (Large Marine Environments) are very important acronyms to keep in mind in The Fallout Age.
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was suspected,
Thats the story and their sticking to it !
COVER STORIES!
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I for one am not seeing near the numbers of birds I usually see here in Florida any time of the year!
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