Dead Ducks

Test results are pending to discover what killed 7000 ducks in South Dakota last month.

I have an idea that it's going to be botulism or some other disease that they all got from too many of them hanging out in the same pond...which truly does happen quite frequently.

PIERRE - Wildlife officials are waiting test results from some of the more than 7,000 mallard ducks found dead last month north of Pierre.

Andy Lindbloom in the state Game, Fish and Parks Department tells KCCR radio that the die-off was discovered around Jan. 30. He says dead ducks were found in an open pond in western Sully County and on the ice at Okobojo Creek on the Missouri River.

Lindbloom says a large die-off of waterfowl is not uncommon, but he says officials still want the mallards tested. He says it doesn't appear there's any threat to other wildlife or waterfowl.

See it here; http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_54933b54-3391-11e0-aad0-001cc4c03286.html

We will try and follow this story as the results come in.

If we hear of a "government official" coming forward and telling us they were all killed by blunt force trauma....and they think the ducks all ran into a power line and died.....then we will know that something REALLY unexplainable is going on.

Hat tip to Karl J.