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volcano watcher User ID: 961971 United States 06/04/2010 07:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you want to help. These people are down there rescuing birds. They are INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE RESEARCH CENTER. You can make a donation on line to help them. Quoting: volcano watcher 961971The website has all kinds of info on what they are doing and how they do it. [link to www.ibrrc.org] I know some people only read the last page so I'm posting this again. If you want to help please check out the above website. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 947863 United States 06/04/2010 07:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Horrible When a bird encounters oil on the surface of the water, the oil sticks to its feathers, causing them to mat and separate, impairing the waterproofing and exposing the animals sensitive skin to extremes in temperature. This can result in hypothermia, meaning the bird becomes cold, or hyperthermia, which results in overheating. Instinctively, the bird tries to get the oil off its feathers by preening, which results in the animal ingesting the oil. This ingestion can cause severe damage to the bird's internal organs. The focus on preening overrides all other natural behaviors; including feeding and evading predators, making the bird vulnerable to secondary health problems such as severe weight loss, anemia and dehydration. Many oil soaked birds loose their buoyancy and beach themselves in their attempt to escape the cold water. The fortunate ones are picked up by concerned citizens or capture crews |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 947863 United States 06/04/2010 07:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | La. - To date Birds collected 612 / 527 Dead Sea Turtles colleced 278/ 274 Dead Mammals (includes dolphins) collected 31/ 30 Dead [link to www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 947863 United States 06/04/2010 07:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | La. - To date Quoting: Anonymous Coward 947863Birds collected 612 / 527 Dead Sea Turtles colleced 278/ 274 Dead Mammals (includes dolphins) collected 31/ 30 Dead [link to www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com] It doesn't look like their odds for survival are very good. |
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goodmockingbird User ID: 990956 United States 06/04/2010 08:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you want to help. These people are down there rescuing birds. They are INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE RESEARCH CENTER. You can make a donation on line to help them. Quoting: volcano watcher 961971The website has all kinds of info on what they are doing and how they do it. [link to www.ibrrc.org] I know some people only read the last page so I'm posting this again. If you want to help please check out the above website. Grieve and move forward. Grieve and move FORWARD! Here is another extensive list of rescue resources which need our help. These are reliable websites which are recommended by Birder's World, which is a well-respected, long-established publication: [link to cs.birdersworld.com] Last Edited by goodmockingbird on 06/04/2010 08:05 AM I Support Our First Responders |
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guy369 User ID: 954465 Canada 06/04/2010 08:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | have you guys considered that bp, a publically owned company, can sell their oil rigs in alaska to make up for lost income? they can sell to china if they want to Quoting: Anonymous Coward 979813Who cares? Oh my god, BP can sell things to make $$! Wow. They're heroes! We are Stardust |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 937926 United Kingdom 06/04/2010 08:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | don't be as offended as you are. after all it's nature. if these animals were meant to stay alive they would have flown away when the oil first started coming. these things are just dumb! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 718510They're conscious living beings... they've just never encountered anything like this. They avoid hazards usually (predators, etc).. but this is new to them and are unaware of the danger until it's too late. No, I'm really afraid the original poster here was more correct, animals are indeed STUPID with no ability to think or reason. I live in an area where deer are common, and believe me if animals had ANY brains, they would know how to cross a road without getting turned into bloody broken bags of bones. Lets face it, stop, look both ways, and proceed is NOT rocket science, and they CAN'T do it. Also, the damn roads are where they have been for GENERATIONS of deer lifetimes, yet they continue to slaughter themselves in the same places, generation after generation. Obviously they lack even the most rudimentary means to tell their offspring to STAY AWAY FROM ROADS. Animals are MORONS... It's just the way they are. U are one of the the Stupid Human who thinks that Human are the smartest of all. U think that Birds and animals are Morons, coz they could not think or do as u could. OK, Breath underwater like a fish, or Fly without a machine like a bird.... then i will believe u to be the smartest. Countless list of Challenges could be given to the Humans to perform in which they will fail those Birds & Animals. Maybe Humans are Morons too in their viewpoints, for they fails in easy tasks that could be performed easily by a Bird or Animal. At least those Birds & Animals doesn't goes on destroying the Planet itself which gives them shelters. So who is the BEST MORON ? What are some kind of IDIOT? Don't look now, but humans looked at fish swimming and birds flying, and applied out superior minds to the problem and BEAT THE STUPID ANIMALS AT THEIR OWN GAME... Show me a dolphin that can dive underwater for MONTHS at a time, or a fish that can attain the depths that a nuclear sub can. Show me a bird that can fly at supoersonic speed, or trnsition in flight to a hover, or that GO THE THE MOON... Get a damn grip. They use scales and feathers and get by, and we use our MINDS and surpass them. We are superior. you pal are thick as shit, most fish can dive deeper than a nuclear sub, your pathetic with your "isnt technology great its better than the natural world" personally id like to stick a nuclear sub right in your ass so you can forever understand how great it really is, prick. look up kestrels for flight to hover, we never went to the moon ourselves, why would a bird need to fly at supersonic speed? absolute cock mongler you are i cant express how deeply i feel about your stupidity or in terms that would get it through to you properly. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 992152 Germany 06/04/2010 08:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | La. - To date Quoting: Anonymous Coward 947863Birds collected 612 / 527 Dead Sea Turtles colleced 278/ 274 Dead Mammals (includes dolphins) collected 31/ 30 Dead [link to www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com] It doesn't look like their odds for survival are very good. it´s actually more bad than this. 85% of the survived/released birds die within a timeframe of 1 week. so actually below 1% survive :( [link to www.augsburger-allgemeine.de] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 865798 United States 06/04/2010 10:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sorrow...so fucking sad...we...completely...suck Quoting: SickscentI swear to God, if we humans make it past all this shit, we have got to change. But will we? I really want to believe we can as a whole. It takes more than a few. It requires complete change in man's behaviors regarding this planet and how we live on it. It will have to be a complete and utter change from what we are now. This is the first time I cried looking at a post. Its not only the pictures, it is the comments...I am crying right now writing this...there has to be a catalyst that pushes us to be different...Why does it have to be something this horrible to start changing us...? I have cried umpteen times over this tragedy. SS, I don't know if even this is enough to do it. Yeah...I read back over what I wrote...and I didn't mean that this event would change us, but it is pushing some of us to be different. It absolutely sucks to be so separated that this goes on, and if it wasn't for pictures we would be totally clueless. We are sooooo separated from the place we call home. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 988154 Canada 06/04/2010 10:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sorrow...so fucking sad...we...completely...suck Quoting: SickscentI swear to God, if we humans make it past all this shit, we have got to change. But will we? I really want to believe we can as a whole. It takes more than a few. It requires complete change in man's behaviors regarding this planet and how we live on it. It will have to be a complete and utter change from what we are now. This is the first time I cried looking at a post. Its not only the pictures, it is the comments...I am crying right now writing this...there has to be a catalyst that pushes us to be different...Why does it have to be something this horrible to start changing us...? I have cried umpteen times over this tragedy. SS, I don't know if even this is enough to do it. Yeah...I read back over what I wrote...and I didn't mean that this event would change us, but it is pushing some of us to be different. It absolutely sucks to be so separated that this goes on, and if it wasn't for pictures we would be totally clueless. We are sooooo separated from the place we call home. And as you can see, by some of the responses in this thread, that religion has played a huge part in condoning and promoting that separation by placing man far above everything else. And because of that "superiority", man has continued to destroy his own home without regard or thought. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 865798 United States 06/04/2010 10:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sorrow...so fucking sad...we...completely...suck Quoting: Anonymous Coward 988154I swear to God, if we humans make it past all this shit, we have got to change. But will we? I really want to believe we can as a whole. It takes more than a few. It requires complete change in man's behaviors regarding this planet and how we live on it. It will have to be a complete and utter change from what we are now. This is the first time I cried looking at a post. Its not only the pictures, it is the comments...I am crying right now writing this...there has to be a catalyst that pushes us to be different...Why does it have to be something this horrible to start changing us...? I have cried umpteen times over this tragedy. SS, I don't know if even this is enough to do it. Yeah...I read back over what I wrote...and I didn't mean that this event would change us, but it is pushing some of us to be different. It absolutely sucks to be so separated that this goes on, and if it wasn't for pictures we would be totally clueless. We are sooooo separated from the place we call home. And as you can see, by some of the responses in this thread, that religion has played a huge part in condoning and promoting that separation by placing man far above everything else. And because of that "superiority", man has continued to destroy his own home without regard or thought. Humility...so many of us are in need of it. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 959261 India 06/04/2010 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | actually i'm crying right now after seeing these photos... what have they done? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 991980with their stupid materialistic behaviour... Don't cry. That doesn't do anything for anybody. Grow up. Crying is a way to express your feelings. Blocking such emotions wouldn't do anything for anybody! You grow up. I don't know how ya'll do it in Malta, but there are no cry babies around here. Do you want your mommy? Oh and if you have any cool pictures of dead fish, post 'em. I want to see 'em! Isn't it wonderful that a thread with just some photographs of suffering birds were able to bring tears in the eyes of many GLPer ? GLP <--- the world's largest conspiracy forum, where peoples keeps joking about even DOOM itself. Behold the realities of the touch of nature we all have inside us. As for your dead fish pics, stop it for good ; else next you might find yourself seeking pics of dead animals, pics of dead peoples, pic of dead wives & pics of dead childrens. Read carefully by googling an scientific article on "Why we cry & it's effects on us" before you condemn the tears of those fellow GLPers.... who could feel the pain inside them for those poor innocent animals sufferings. If you call them "crybaby", you yourself is the greatest bullshits called a Machine. Emotions & Feelings are those that keeps us as the so called Humans. |
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karen/la User ID: 1027106 United States 07/06/2010 12:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Fuck the birds i need gas in my car Quoting: curiousamjamberYou know, as much as I genuinely hate to say it, this guy has the most realistic attitude about this. The whole thing is absolutely terrible you'll get no argument from me, but WE need to live and support ourselves as well, and as much as you may not like it, OIL is the fuel upon which the entire industrialized world we depend on runs. As for all you wind and solar people, let's see you blow your hot air in your tank and get to work. Alternate technology which is undoubtedly developmentally necessary is simply NOT capable of running the world in which we live. It may keep the grow-lights lit up in your subterrainean herb farm, but that's about all it's good for. You ain't gonna put up a building or build a road or haul good across the nation on sunshine, SUNSHINE! So I say we bite the bullet, clean up our messes as we create them, do the best we can, but NOT allow the LEFTIST agitators and nut cases to hijack this catastrophe to further their pet goal of destroying Western Civilization. I thought I couldn't live without my car until it broke down and has been at the garage for a month while they are trying to fix it. And you know what, each week that's gone by I've realized I need it less and less. I now to my push bike for everything. It's quicker than I thought it would be to get to the local shops, gives me exercise, I can fit the shopping I need in my backpack. Now I guess I'm lucky that I've got stuff local to me but some neighbors use their car for everything, even 5 minutes walk to the local newsagent to get a paper, they will drive. You hardly see anyone walking now, so many people are used to driving everywhere for every little thing. I agree with you 100%. I wish everyone could understand we DO NOT need our cars for every trip we take, even around the corner for a newspaper. If we could all just ride our bike and save the car for a actual trip, the world would be a happier place : ) This oil spill makes me so sad. Shame on that company. And shame on us for being addicted to oil I lived in Madrid Espana in 1970. We rode bikes all over europe. pple here would run you over,. these hicks here... we had to put an order on the books to stay some? feet away from bicyclers.Stupid...MY parents lived in La,no AC,NO running water,well lake, and ate off of the land.NOt 50 years ago.PPl,now would just croak.enough w/ a tv on in every room, lites on.lets live on less,much less oil. |
karen/ LA User ID: 1037264 United States 07/15/2010 04:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you call them "crybaby", you yourself is the greatest bullshits called a Machine. Emotions & Feelings are those that keeps us as the so called Humans. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 894627NASA says this is the Time for the earth's greatest change. Many species will die. only the swiftest to ADAPT will survive. Glad I'm older. Leave me to the porch swing. I do not condone this, just realistic.I love my animules. |