Freaky beaks (Lakes: living, eat, health)

[RedJacket]

Crows, chickadees and other birds living year-round in Alaska are suffering an epidemic of beak deformities that is confounding scientists.

The grossly overgrown, overly-curved and sometimes crossed beaks started showing up in large numbers about a decade ago, and are now being widely reported across southern and interior Alaska, as well as neighboring parts of the Pacific northwest, said Caroline Van Hemert, a wildlife biologist.

Deformed beaks in Alaska birds puzzle scientists | Reuters

Well, this is interesting. I'd say Alaska has an underlying environmental health problem that I want no part of.

Visit Alaska and your top lip will grow over your bottom lip which will prevent you from eating. Starvation within a few weeks.

No thanks. I'll head to Cleveland where the skies are blue and the air is crisp and clean.

[warptman]

Thank you for posting useless information on a daily basis.

[dradiin]

Originally Posted by think first

Crows, chickadees and other birds living year-round in Alaska are suffering an epidemic of beak deformities that is confounding scientists.

The grossly overgrown, overly-curved and sometimes crossed beaks started showing up in large numbers about a decade ago, and are now being widely reported across southern and interior Alaska, as well as neighboring parts of the Pacific northwest, said Caroline Van Hemert, a wildlife biologist.

Deformed beaks in Alaska birds puzzle scientists | Reuters

Well, this is interesting. I'd say Alaska has an underlying environmental health problem that I want no part of.

Visit Alaska and your top lip will grow over your bottom lip which will prevent you from eating. Starvation within a few weeks.

No thanks. I'll head to Cleveland where the skies are blue and the air is crisp and clean.

Yes an anomalous deformity found in birds constitutes the eventual starvation of any Alaskan residents.

[RedJacket]

Originally Posted by warptman

Thank you for posting useless information on a daily basis.

Thank you for reading it.

[Nephler]

I read some time ago that the thought is that it is caused by the lack of vitamin D during the winter hours.

[RedJacket]

Originally Posted by Nephler

I read some time ago that the thought is that it is caused by the lack of vitamin D during the winter hours.

The Great Lakes area had a similar problem and it was determined to be caused in part, by environmental pollutants.

What's causing it in the NW & Alaska appears to still be a mystery. Crows and chickadees don't forage in the same areas which makes it even more of a mystery.

[BudinAk]

Originally Posted by think first

Crows, chickadees and other birds living year-round in Alaska are suffering an epidemic of beak deformities that is confounding scientists.

The grossly overgrown, overly-curved and sometimes crossed beaks started showing up in large numbers about a decade ago, and are now being widely reported across southern and interior Alaska, as well as neighboring parts of the Pacific northwest, said Caroline Van Hemert, a wildlife biologist.

Deformed beaks in Alaska birds puzzle scientists | Reuters

Well, this is interesting. I'd say Alaska has an underlying environmental health problem that I want no part of.

Visit Alaska and your top lip will grow over your bottom lip which will prevent you from eating. Starvation within a few weeks.

No thanks. I'll head to Cleveland where the skies are blue and the air is crisp and clean.

Some are now speculating the cause is hot air....blowing into Alaska from Cleveland...

[richelles]

It is possible that this type of abberant growth is due to a toxin in the environment. However when you read the currently available literature it is quickly evident no actual cause has been identified. What is obvious is whatever is causing this looming problem is affecting one part of the body structure which is called keratin. Your hair and fingernails are keratin as are birds beaks, feathers and a bear’s claws and a moose’s antlers. What I see as strange about this problem is the visible effect is primarily in the beaks of birds in this case. From what I have read feathers and toe nails in birds don't seem to be affected only beaks. So whatever casual factor is involved is only part of their genetic system because of the defect being limited to beaks.

I have been involved with birds of many different kinds and have seen isolated cases of beak deficiencies in a number of different species. In the present case it seems to involve a number of different unrelated types of birds but as noted the visible effect is in the beaks. What makes this worrisome is our skin is actually a keratin and this casual agent icould affect all animals. Your skin is actually an organ, the largest one in your body, and whatever is affecting the one part of a birds integumentary (skin) could mean the entire organ structure could become compromised. So this could suggest there is something worrisome out there.

[bortstc37]

it has to be HAARP! OMG!