Originally Posted by Sly

I wonder if this is like shark attacks.

A few years back, media was reporting shark attacks practically every week. There was a big hoorah. People stopped going to the beach, etc. etc. Turns out, shark attacks that year were no more than any other year. The media just decided to flip out about shark attacks.

As odd as it sounds, I read the other day that flocks of birds randomly dying is not all that uncommon. Everything from lightning to firecrackers to airplanes to windmills and yeh, probably chemicals and pollution, too.