Could be a few things it states on the website, food, polltion etc. I'm not sure and i can't be bothered to look it up but do pelicans rely on the earths magnetic lines to navigate like some of the other birds? Could it be that they are flying on a differing path (due to magnetic changes in the earth, pole shifts etc), getting exhausted and crashing down?

I just wrote something about this on the earthquake thread. It was just suggested by the well-known Geologist, Mr. Berkland, to be on the look-out for this kind of activity in birds.

Maybe it is an illness...or maybe it is a pre-cursor to a VERY large seismic event on the West Coast. Only time will tell!

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Thats another good point.

I have the highest respect for Mr. Jim Berkland. Its too bad that if that were the cause/effect that would mean the 'california slides into the ocean' theary would be immenant and there is nothing we could do until it was too late...

I heard on CNN to day that some scientists were theorizing that it could be because of algea, so who knows, i hope this is something that is fixable.

that is an interesting angle, however i have some misgivings about that direction as pelicans are mainly water birds (although that COULD hint at something underwater just off the coast..)

My moneys on something like red tide affecting a fish they eat or something the fish they eat eat. I love watching them fly along the Outer Banks of North Carolina, US.

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This happend before in austin texes. Birds randomly droping out of the sky in mid flight.

It could be a sudden change in the magnetic field, a sort of flux (which does happen) that puts the birds into sudden conffusion, causing it to stop flying for a split second causing it to loose control and fall.

I guess my titles arent fancy enough to garner the attention i feel these topics deserve, guess ill have to work on that in the future...

Some years back, I was looking into the Bermuda Triangle mystery. I came across an explanation that at first seemed silly, but when I looked into it, combined with some of the other theories I personally believe are accurate on electromagnetism, gravitation, and time dilation, it started sounding plausible.

It may be possible for ionized gas clouds under certain conditions to create a kind of energy surge that can resonate throughout gravitational as well as electromagnetic fields. If the seismic activity now occurring around the West Coast is coming from oceanic releases of pockets of ionized gas, it is just possible that the magnetic flux lines could be shifted enough for the pelicans to lose their navigational ability to some extent.

That could impact their ability to catch food and could also explain why they would be flying into objects... basically, their senses are saying what is there is not there, but somewhere else. Like they try to fly around an object, but they sense that object several feet to one side or another of its true location.

There could also be time variations, meaning that the pelicans could be trying for fish that used to be there, or even so severe that boats hit by the pelicans could be seen by those pelicans as being where they were some time earlier.

Now some people are going to think I'm crazy for posting this, but that's OK. There are probably 4 or 5 different areas of research I am slowly pursuing that lead to accusations of such on a regular basis. Don't ask me for exact data on the phenomena; it would take 20 threads to explain it. Read and understand Einstein, Tesla, Townsend Brown, Professor John R. R. Searle, and a few others if you want to know more about the theories.

In the meantime, look out for gas clouds coming from the ocean floor in that area.

TheRedneck

that IS an interesting angle. We may have to soon come up with a comprehensive list of what could be doing this, im wondering how long and 'strange' that list may end up being...