Japan - 41 Dead Crows Test Negative for Bird Flu

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Crow: 41 wings and manner of death - a forest of Kanagawa Minamiashigara

５日午前１１時半ごろ、神奈川県南足柄市壗下（まました）の山林でカラス十数羽が死んでいると、通行人から同市役所へ連絡があった。​

Sunday 11 am to 5 year-壗下


Minamiashigara Kanagawa (MAMASHITA) and the number of dead crows in a wing of the forest, contact the city to the office from passers-by.

県政総合センターで調べたところ、約５０メートル四方の範囲にカラス４１羽が死んでいた。​

Found in the administrative center, about 50 square meters in the range of 41 crows were dead birds.

目立った外傷はなかった。​

No major injuries.

鳥インフルエンザの疑いもあるとみて簡易検査をしたが、陰性だったという。​

The simple test is a suspicion of bird flu was negative.

毒物の影響は不明。​

Effects of the poison is unknown.

同センターは検体を国立環境研究所へ送り、詳しく調べる。​

The center will send the samples to the National Institute for Environmental Studies, investigate.

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[Naozumi Takahashi]

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2009年4月6日　東京朝刊​

Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo 2009, April 6 Sunday morning


http://mainichi.jp/select/wadai/news/20090406ddm041040051000c.html

 

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Re: Japan - 41 Dead Crows Test Negative for Bird Flu

Source: http://www.kanaloco.jp/localnews/entry/entryivapr0904336/

Google translation:
Crow mass suspicious death, the mystery deepens / Minamiashigara
* 2009/04/14

Five days this month in the woods and fields of orange Minamiashigara, a large number of crows were found dead. Experts and local people "this is the first" suspicious death of birds and equally amazing 95 -. To dissect a corpse, the bird flu virus and pesticides, is looking at whether a drug such as rat poison, none of the result is "white". The cause of death is not known by now, the mystery has just deepened.

The scene is spread in mountain ravines of the northern city壗下(MAMASHITA) district. I have a roost in a copse, and a crow flying in the sky. Local farmers are "the scum favorite beans mixed with fertilizer or bone meal."

"The dead crow." The city was in the morning five days. And County officials to reach the site was laid out on the fields and woods from the farm road with a lot of dead crows. Concentrated in 15 square meters in the wings most of the 95 dead, not trauma, was closed wings.

"If you fight, natural death, or there is trauma, or dies should spread its wings" man and bird and animal protection. County officials also "eating the poison in the case of吐瀉(TOSHA Buddha) had no signs or chalky foam at the mouth" look doubtful.

Can not deny the possibility of starving because there was no residue in the stomach.

However, "he crows," Akie Sugita, Utsunomiya University has earned him the nickname of "the natural thing to starve the many crows in one place it is impossible." On top of that, "was killed in a human. Where trouble could break the disinfecting agent" to guess. Crows are really smart to have a strong vigilance "brought dead theory" has emerged.

Tokyo's efforts to eradicate crows, and 10,000 a year in about 100 pieces of meat and fat and the crows behind the decoy to catch a feather 1000 50001. Disinfecting agent in Tokyo is "close to death and injury to birds with carbon dioxide in the slaughter, the capital provider is dead I think it is strictly controlled."

The woods field is littered with trash and empty cans and bottles in bulk, they are also signs of the police abandoned Gotenba Oyama town, Shizuoka Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture next to sue to prevent illegal dumping.

The man was reported (66) "Is it going to abandon the dead crows in the back all the way from the farm road enters the woods." In any case at present for the death出ZU the area of speculation,浮KABETA an anxious expression.

 

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Re: Japan - 41 Dead Crows Test Negative for Bird Flu

Concentrated in 15 square meters in the wings most of the 95 dead, not trauma, was closed wings.

"If you fight, natural death, or there is trauma, or dies should spread its wings" man and bird and animal protection.

I've never heard this before; interesting. Birds killed by cars always have spread wings and I find an occasional dead one in the yard with its wings closed; I never knew why the difference.