I suspect HARRP for incidents like this.  They could have redirected some rain clouds our way this summer.  The pentagon brags that they can control the weather to make rain clouds and to manipulate the weather.(Hello, we could have used some rain this summer when the crops were dying) I wouldn't put past some in our government to make thesse man made disasters.  I have also studdied freuqency and it is quite possible to harm both animals, humans and crops with the adjusted frequency.  God forbid that such evil would be used to manipulate conditions but all things are possible in the world we live in.

"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord."  - Romans 12:19

Bonnie, I believe the die-offs have occurred as confirmation of God's coming. If you think of it this way, God speaks in different ways to different people. I believe that there are those who, are more devastated by something like mass animal die-offs than sightings of supernatural, or demonstrations of healings, or signs & wonders.

My Step Father is a "Bug Biologist"( Entamologist --oops can't spell it) and my Mom is Head of a wildlife organization. God speaks to my Mom through nature not church, etc. I believe that is another form of God's wake-up call to the scientists.

They tried to explain these mass deaths a couple of years ago with no real strong theory. One scientist agreed it was God....love this! How great is God!!

The other strange thing is, some of the rivers in Russia, Palestine, Indonesia (hopefully I remembered correctly) all turning blood red. The timing of these is GOD, it just is. The other one is the Bleeding (blood read) Glacier....an eerie sight really....explained away by some type of oxidation, etc. etc. Who knows? This was definately one of the "kick-offs" to look to God for me in January 2010, So were the die-offs. There were no correlations and the die-offs were never explained.

Just my theory.....God's red flags...a call to all of us!!

David R...I definately believe that these events can be scientifically explained but most starvation die-offs are not as catastrophic and centralized... I have seen die-offs due to starvation in the wilderness, Canadian Rockies...it was sprawled out not quickly in Mass chunks.

Radio Frequencies and Magnetic Fields make more sense but, I still believe that the scientific community as a whole is dumbfounded. Not all die-offs have correlation.

I thought at one time, it was some strange Bio-terrorist act. Now, to hear my non-believer Mom say...God's mystery......Whoa....This has to be God!!

I am no Scientist. I have quite a few as clients. All seem to have theories but, no concrete support....

Animal die-offs happen for various reasons. Sometimes we know why, sometimes we don't know.

For instance, the tilapia are dying in the Salton Sea because the California water people aren't willing to add water to that odd accidental lake (more water is lost by evaporation in the desert heat than comes into the lake from run-off). This results in a weird ecosystem where the fish die at one time of year, migrating birds die at other times, and other parts of the ecosystem die at still other times; the causes are varied: high salinity, low oxygen in the water, etc.

When I was a teen visiting Indiana, there was a die-off in Lake Michigan of a fish known as the alewife. It was the wrong time to go to the beach! They blamed pollution (it was the late 60s); I don't know if it was that or something else.

Sometimes fish will die in the ocean around Florida and it is due to the red tide, a poisonous algae that can affect sea life as well as swimmers.

Some aquatic life is very sensitive to heat; in very hot weather, the temperature of the water in a lake or stream may rise too high.

With the drought in so much of the country, I'm sure there are some die-offs related to that. But we may not understand how, for instance, the death of a particular bird is connected to the drought -- perhaps the drought killed something they would normally have eaten as they migrated through the drought-stricken area. We don't see the missing prey, but only the bird -- dead for no apparent reason.

The last couple of years there have been crowds of starlings found dead on New Year's Day. The latest theory I remember had something to do with midnight fireworks startling the birds. I think it was that starlings are diurnal creatures, unable to see in the dark, and must have flown blind into buildings or tree limbs.

Many things have been implicated in the honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder, including cell phones, but the most likely seems to be a particular type of pesticide; unfortunately it still hasn't been banned in the US (there's no honeybee problem where it's never been used or where it's been banned).
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/04/06/common-pesticide-implicated-bee-colony-collapse-disorder/

And finally: when I was a kid in California, one fall the pyracantha berries fermented on the bushes. It was something weather-related. Robins ate them and staggered around as if drunk. It was so widespread the local news covered it. We laughed to see the drunken birds -- but the next couple of years there was a lack of robins. [And no, it wasn't pollution; it was the late 50s and winter, and that city didn't spray for anything.]

Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites,
because the Lord has a charge to bring
against you who live in the land:
“There is no faithfulness, no love,
no acknowledgment of God in the land.
Hosea 4:2There is only cursing,[a] lying and murder,
stealing and adultery;
they break all bounds,
and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Hosea 4:3 Because of this the land dries up,
and all who live in it waste away;
the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky
and the fish in the sea are swept away.

Could this be the answer?

ybiC
Neko.

I do remember watching a show about research on the homing ability of sea turtles. They put the baby turtles on a tether and let them swim in a big tub while they artificially cancelled or changed the magnetic fields around the tub to simulate the world's magnetic fields. They could change the turtles direction of swimming within a couple of strokes or have it swim aimlessly in the middle by manipulating the magnetic fields.

A shift in the magnetic poles of the earth could have huge changes for animals ability to find "home". Just remember we're talking about shifts in the magnetic fields / poles. It's not that the earth shifts on it's axis, just the magnetic fields shift. They are completely different things. Magnetic fields have changed a lot.

The enormous quake in Japan moved the Japanese coastline by 8 feet and apparently shifted the physical axis by only four inches.

In comparison " The magnetic north pole has been creeping northward – by more than 600 miles (1,100 km) – since the early 19th century, when explorers first located it precisely. It is moving faster now, actually, as scientists estimate the pole is migrating northward about 40 miles per year, as opposed to about 10 miles per year in the early 20th century."
fair use for educational and discussion purposes
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012-poleReversal.html