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First it was redwinged blackbirds falling out of the sky–in two places in the US and also in Sweden. Then it was thousands of dead fish. Now it’s doves: A thousand of them have dropped out of the sky in Italy, all with blue stains on their beaks. Officials says the blue tint indicates hypoxia, which is a lack of oxygen that can confuse animals.

In the January 7th edition of the Telegraph, Nick Pisa quotes a local Italian newspaper as saying, "Let’s hope it is poisoning or an illness because that would be easier to deal with than it being a sign the world is coming to an end."
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The jet stream keeps looping above northern Greenland, then collapsing down into the central Atlantic. This is happening because the North Atlantic is still too warm from last summer. When it collapses, it causes cold arctic air to mix with warmer air over the Atlantic, which then rotates in across eastern North America in the form of a blizzard with a storm structure like a hurricane, although hopefully without the high speed winds. To read the media story about the storm–without the explanation of why, of course–click here.
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It’s not just birds that are dying: Arkansas officials are investigating the death of 100,000 fish in a lake in a town near Little Rock and suspect disease is to blame. CNN quotes Game & Fish Commissioner Keith Stephens as saying, "The fish kill only affected one species of fish. If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish."
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