What would make this bird fall out of the sky??

[jb666]

I found this today, on the walkway going into my office.. No injuries that I could see.. It was still warm and riggor hadn't set in yet.. So it's was fairly recent...

Someone thought it was a "spotted finch" Any bird people here??

[dart3404]

       West Nile virus, old age, could have got in a fight with another finch. I had a male Pin Tail Wider finch that killed two of my other finches.  Sad

[squeakfinder]

 Poisened or flew into a window.

[mikepmcs]

"bird on a wire"


dead bird, dead bird, gonna put it on you......(eddie murphy)

[Mr.Woolery]

Heart failure...

[RD]

I found this today, on the walkway going into my office.. No injuries that I could see.. It was still warm and riggor hadn't set in yet.. So it's was fairly recent...

Someone thought it was a "spotted finch" Any bird people here??

well.. its simple:

due to the large number of hydrocarbons being forcefully put into the atmosphere by the biggest contaminators of the planet (you know, forest fires and volcanoes), the polar ice cap began melting at hugely disproportionate amounts in relation to the past 100 years (you know.. its the 100 years that tells us everything about the earth and its weather patters and climate), this influx of colder water created a large current of water that affected the northeast seaboard of the united states THUS creating an unseasonable change in weather.  This weather created storm patterns and days of sunshine that allowed for the indigenous species to react in ways unbeknownst to humans (of course, these animals have been studied only for the past 100 years).  One of the behavioral reactions was this bird dying a death all attributed to old age.

So there... global warming can be tied to everything.  Hope that helps.

[jb666]

Apparently it's a woodpecker... A Yellow Shafted Flicker

[68X426]

I found this today, on the walkway going into my office.. No injuries that I could see.. It was still warm and riggor hadn't set in yet.. So it's was fairly recent...

Someone thought it was a "spotted finch" Any bird people here??

Hurray, one less bird to shit on our cars! 

(Now I got to lay low or the PETA crowd will be screaming).

[RECHRGD]

Probably flew into a window.  It happens at my place all the time.  Those damn Flickers can cause some serious damage to your wood siding.  They're smart too.  If they are pecking away on the house and I walk outside with something to throw at them, I can't get them to budge.  But, if I walk outside with a shotgun, they're gone in a flash!  Bob

[Magnumcharger]

Birds die of heart attacks.
When they get old, they die, sometimes in mid flight. I've seen it happen.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080729170553AAiRdju

[bull]

Maybe he tried pecking on a piece of concrete and broke his noggin. Woodpeckers can be pretty stupid. I've seen them banging away on all sorts of things that wouldn't have a lick of food inside. The last one I saw was rattling himself silly on a plastic light cover.

[RECHRGD]

Maybe he tried pecking on a piece of concrete and broke his noggin. Woodpeckers can be pretty stupid. I've seen them banging away on all sorts of things that wouldn't have a lick of food inside. The last one I saw was rattling himself silly on a plastic light cover.

Well now, that kind of goes along with RD's reasoning.  Plastic objects are dreadful manmade things that can only serve to upset the ecosystem.  And since the poor bird was already mentally ill due to global war...uh climate change, he couldn't have known not to peck it.  Right?   Bob

[Charger440RDN]

Good ol swine flu got him  

[jb666]

Good ol swine flu got him  

Ima go get that shot tomorrow.

[Silver R/T]

ate a bad bug

[bull]

Maybe he tried pecking on a piece of concrete and broke his noggin. Woodpeckers can be pretty stupid. I've seen them banging away on all sorts of things that wouldn't have a lick of food inside. The last one I saw was rattling himself silly on a plastic light cover.

Well now, that kind of goes along with RD's reasoning.  Plastic objects are dreadful manmade things that can only serve to upset the ecosystem.  And since the poor bird was already mentally ill due to global war...uh climate change, he couldn't have known not to peck it.  Right?   Bob

Yes, I believe you're onto something. Plastic is not only man-made but it's made of petroleum so it's twice as evil as most man-made items.

[69DodgeCharger]

Man I had one of those that showed up for 3 straight years in the spring/early summer and hammered away on the vent cap to my gas hot water heater almost every day. The bad part was that it was usually about 5-6 in the morning and I worked second shift.

[Daytona R/T SE]

I'm gonna have to go with cow farts on this one...

[elacruze]

Maybe he tried pecking on a piece of concrete and broke his noggin. Woodpeckers can be pretty stupid. I've seen them banging away on all sorts of things that wouldn't have a lick of food inside. The last one I saw was rattling himself silly on a plastic light cover.

We have one that does the light cover every morning. They call females and define territorial boundaries with pecking, and have discovered that streetlight covers ring like a bell.
Who woulda figured?

[squeakfinder]

Maybe he tried pecking on a piece of concrete and broke his noggin. Woodpeckers can be pretty stupid. I've seen them banging away on all sorts of things that wouldn't have a lick of food inside. The last one I saw was rattling himself silly on a plastic light cover.

We have one that does the light cover every morning. They call females and define territorial boundaries with pecking, and have discovered that streetlight covers ring like a bell.
Who woulda figured?

   
         They tend to rattle aluminum picking ladder's around here. On a quite day you can hear them a mile away.

[ITSA426]

Nobody said gravity?