Thousands of blackbirds fall dead from sky

[zenmaster]

why werent they falling from the sky in such an all-encompassing blanket fashion everywhere aronud the world last year, or the year before, or in the last decade, or ANYtime in the last century ?

That is one outstanding question. But the primary consideration, presumably, is to determine what contributed to the animal deaths. Confusingly, we already know that most cases, although coincident in a relatively short period of time, have unequivocally different causes. For example, weather, diet and trauma have been indicated as distinct causes.

Obviously, when researchers report the cause of death as "blunt-force trauma", for example, they do not mean that was ground-strike trauma.

The popularization, media facility, and sensation seeking also results a snow-ball magnification effect in mass consciousness. People tend to seek out more and more "anomalous" incidents which would have been otherwise labeled as "normal". Confirmation bias always overrules objective investigation. This thread even has a place in "The Harvest" section, which presumably offers at least some pretext.