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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://articles.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx</link><description>Tens of millions of the most common birds in North America have disappeared, and their absence is signaling a silent alarm bell about the state of our ecosystem. According to a report by the National Audubon Society, the numbers of some species of birds</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#223909</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:03:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:223909</guid><dc:creator>Pat Bell Smith</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The reason the honeybees and the birds are disappearing is due to the chemtrails...pretty soon we&amp;#39;ll all be disappearing at the rate they are spraying. &amp;nbsp;Look all this up on the internet about chemtrails..they&amp;#39;ve been spraying since 1997, and probably even before that. &amp;nbsp;They are spraying the skies above me almost daily now. &amp;nbsp;When I looked up chemtrails this morning, I read an article about how these &amp;quot;chemicals&amp;quot; have almost killed all the honeybees. &amp;nbsp;So sad.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=223909" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28979</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:29:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28979</guid><dc:creator>Pat Ormsby</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If there is one thing that is really special about being electrosensitive, it is that we?ve known about the birds and bees for about twenty years now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pat&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28979" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28978</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:06:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28978</guid><dc:creator>melvinmoose</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I think the worse culprits that are destroying our eco system are the chemtrails that are being sprayed in the air almost daily here in AZ., and other states, and the GMO's that are being grown and do not naturally produce like God-created plants. Maybe it is a combination of chemtrail chemicals, GMO crops and the EMP's. There is no doubt in my mind that a famine is coming to this country eventually because of man tampering with what God created, and in trying to improve our way of life, we are going to destroy it in the end. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28978" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28977</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:10:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28977</guid><dc:creator>Gary Julian Pompieri</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I never knew that electromagnetic fields could impact the orientation of migratory birds. &amp;nbsp;I think I will refrain from purchasing a cell phone but it's too bad...they come in handy in an emergency. &amp;nbsp;I was thinking of switching my ISP to high-speed wireless but now, I'm second-thinking about that, too. &amp;nbsp;I'm a member of Bird Forum (a birdwatching website) so I know a little about ornithology and I'm concerned that we're losing birds. &amp;nbsp;Does this mean I should stop listening to my Walkman? &amp;nbsp;It's wireless. &amp;nbsp;I never knew that radio waves were so harmful. &amp;nbsp;The cell phone companies won't get my business!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28977" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28976</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:38:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28976</guid><dc:creator>rigatoni</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Russ Bianchi, &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our farmland in California is sure disappearing. The politicians you mentioned, plus many more, show no real concern for the environment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Steve M.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Live food feeds the cells, dead food promotes premature aging by starving the cells. I agree.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28976" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28975</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:24:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28975</guid><dc:creator>ObeyGod</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Despite the evidence of the cancer-causing effects of cell phone radiation, San Francisco's Mayor Newson and the Board of Supervisors are installing a city-wide wireless system in San Francisco. &amp;nbsp;If this happens, the toxic radiation exposure in San Francisco may manifest itself not only in more dead birds, but in more sick, toxic San Franciscans. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;E-mail San Francisco your advice: &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.sfgov.org/"&gt;http://www.sfgov.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AT&amp;amp;T is negotiating with the City for the wireless contract. &amp;nbsp;Note that AT&amp;amp;T tracks their customers' viewing habits and changes its Privacy Contract periodically, which enables the company to give the customers’ personal information to others. &amp;nbsp;See article: &amp;nbsp;“AT&amp;amp;T rewrites rules: Your data isn't yours”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/21/BUG9VJHB9C1.DTL"&gt;www.sfgate.com/.../article.cgi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28975" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28973</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:58:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28973</guid><dc:creator>T_rex</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Here's how every time you buy flowers, you may be unwittingly contributing to the demise of bird species:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;An estimated 60 percent of flowers being sold in the US come from Colombia. When they are inspected at the port of entry, if they contain any type of insect, they're immediately rejected . Therefore the flower industry in Colombia has resorted to massive pesticide fumigation of their crops. The profits at stake are in the hundreds of millions of dollars and the greed for this kind of money is immense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Everyone knows that birds are insect eaters for the most part. Poisoning insects that grow on flowers therefore poisons birds as a result. Because a lot of migrating birds from north america go as far as south america in their migration patterns, expect ot see fewer and fewer birds returning, as the flower business &amp;quot;flourishes&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28973" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28972</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:35:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28972</guid><dc:creator>Jonathan B</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I live in Oklahoma City and much of our power lines, cell towers, and phone lines seem to be more concentrated on the major roadways, and are less on the residential and side streets. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have noticed that my AM radio reception tends to be terrible when I am traveling these EMF alleys, and that I feel drowsy and slightly nauseated when I am driving in these places, but feel better when I get home or am on side streets, which seems to match almost exactly on how well I received normal AM radio reception.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have to travel as a courier in much of my work as a law office clerk, and I have started to notice that I also feel better when I am off the main roadways and highways and on side roads and 2 lanes than when when I am on the main roads, which seem to have a lot of powerlines and cell towers. In the cross country drives, &amp;nbsp;I have also noticed an odd convergence with the clarity of AM radio signal or lack of clear signal and this bad feeling.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I feel the best in the little out of the way towns with poor cell reception, and few power lines, and places with good AM reception.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I feel alert, cheerful, and focused and find that I notice my surroundings more, and seem to feel more healthy than when I am in an urban environment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I realize that this is a personal experience and may mean nothing, but I wonder if the large amount of various RF, EMF, and cell phone radiation working synergistically on the biology of bugs, birds and humans may be the source of this decline in bugs and birds, and illness of humans, and not a single source.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28972" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28971</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:08:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28971</guid><dc:creator>Ted M</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey All,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let me pose a question, if EM and microwave/radio wave are so dangerous, why don't we see dead or reduced bug or bird populations around cell towers?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am the Pres of a wireless broadband company that substitutes for fiber optics in enterprise level businesses. I am the cheif designer and engineer for the company as well. I spend alot of time around cell towers and I employ many tower climbers and aerial engineers as well as network engineers that routinely work in the equipment shelters at tower sites. I am also a subscriber to many trade rags and an active participant throughout the industry, and have as yet, never heard of any health complaints from ours, or any other aerial crews or network staff. We are exposed to more cell radion and &amp;quot;communication carrying radio waves&amp;quot; lol, than probably anyone else in the US, and all of the guys I know and employ tend to be a really healthy bunch of guys. Even though they spend 40hrs per week standing next to cellular antennas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Additionally, anyone that climbs cell towers can tell you the wasp population is just fine, lol. And I personally have seen everything from red robins to bald eagles and osprey nesting quite happily with many eggs in their nests on the towers&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And in fact, we and every other living thing on earth have been exposed to microwave radiation since life began. There are waves of microwave and sub atomic particles passing through the earth since the big bang.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please don't misunderstand, I am a healthy guy and I raise my family eating whole organic foods, we take anti-oxidants and vitamins, pharm grade omega 3's, etc. And I am an avid reader of Dr. Mercola. But sometimes I think we get a little crazy, focus this energy on something really bad like irradiated food, pesticides, pollution, plastics that are now forming literal islands in our oceans, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Best Regards,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ted Mahoney&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;President, CEO&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Freedom Online, Inc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28971" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28969</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:44:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28969</guid><dc:creator>MrTweety</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I think it is the HDTV signals killing the birds and the bees. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28969" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28966</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:10:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28966</guid><dc:creator>Kevin Booth</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;One more thought. If cell phone don't cause this. Then &amp;nbsp;why can you buy a device that plugs in to the wall outlet in your house and it drives rodents crazy and they leave. Does anybody know how this devices work? Are they microwaves?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28966" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28965</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:07:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28965</guid><dc:creator>MommaofaBunch</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;And what of Frogs?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A biologist friend of mine said to me well over 10 years ago, frogs are a sign of a sound environment. &amp;nbsp;They are the first ones to mutate or have DNA damage over other species.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, what about frogs...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28965" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28964</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:57:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28964</guid><dc:creator>Kevin Booth</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;If it is cell phone technologhy. It's not because of microwaves. It's becasue the info on those microwave is digital. Digital needs more bandwidth. My question is why can't we get along with analog? Because we want the perfect sounding cell phone system. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp;Also microwaves are in the atmosphere, but they go up and down and random. Not like cell phone which go horizontal. This wave pattern is not normal to animals, but it is normal to be in our atmosphere. It's just that they are in a direction that is not normal, that they understand.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; Maybe they start flying up and down instead of north and south. There needs to be a study on this. We might find out that satilites would work better, but there is still the trouble of using cell phones close to the body. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp;It may prove that the up and down movement of these radio frequencies and wireless communication safer for all and better all together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp;This is my outlook on the world today. There needs to be more study.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28964" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28963</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:22:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28963</guid><dc:creator>T_rex</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;On the technical aspects of the video above, did anyone else experience a lack of actual video imagery ? I mean, I just heard the audio, which IS compelling in itself by the way, but there was no &amp;quot;video&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=28963" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Why Are the Birds Disappearing?</title><link>http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/17/why-are-the-birds-disappearing.aspx#28961</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:18:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:28961</guid><dc:creator>T_rex</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;On the issue of Cat 5 wiring, I used to install it as a self-employed contractor years ago. The wires carry square wave of the order of 100 megahetz and although the twisted wire is somewhat self-shielding, there is a certain amount of radiation leakage. So if you want maximum protection from electromagnetic radiation, Dr. Mercola, you have to go with the type of Cat 5 cable that has an outer shield, like coax, and furthermore have ferrite beads installed at the endings.&lt;/p&gt;
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