Over 1,000 mallard ducks die in Idaho

[Poll_Blind]

(Hat tip to Sproutster)

Full article also speculates about poisoned food. Full article at AP via San Luis Obispo Tribune:

More than 1,000 mallard ducks have died along a single creek in southern Idaho, and officials on Wednesday tested tissue samples to find out why.

The symptoms - lesions in the lungs and hemorrhaging in the heart wall - likely point to a bacterial infection, not avian flu, said Dave Parrish, regional supervisor for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

State wildlife biologists and U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigators were not ruling out any cause of death.

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Tissue samples from the ducks and water samples from the creek were sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service national laboratory in Wisconsin, the University of Idaho and Washington State University. Results were expected Thursday.

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PB

[Straight Shooter]

1. Oh, gawd. First one thing and then another tonight, on DU.

:(

Those poor creatures. What a horrible way to die.

[Erika]

2. With the Idaho GOP staunchly fighting environmental reform

and regulations this could be many things. The Congress under W also allowed rollbacks of environmental protections and indeed rubber stamped the rollbacks.

[Stargazer99]

3. You can bet Corporate America has something to do with this

[Quantess]

4. Recommended. Something's obviously wrong.

Bizarre.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. by the way, where wad Dick Cheney during this time?

this has his fingerprints all over it, no?

[cascadiance]

6. Did Mallard Filmore get upset about his DUI and poor old bad beer into the pond?

Perhaps he had to dump some old "brewery" stuff into the pond.

[Quantess]

7. is that true?

(that Mallard Fillmore artist had a DUI?) Not that it would make him any more or less of a jerk. Just wondering.