By M M (Padmanaba01) - Flickr: China: At the chicken market in Xining, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link
While the world obsesses over pandemics, tainted milk, and rising egg prices, a far more insidious disaster is ravaging the Earth — and barely anyone is paying attention.
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) — better known as bird flu — has mutated into a global ecological wrecking ball. It’s not just hitting poultry barns. It’s hammering the wild.
Birds. Seals. Sea lions. Bears. Foxes. Even walruses. It is no longer confined to farms or coastlines — it’s swept across continents, oceans, and species. The devastation is silent, vast, and largely unseen.
Mass Death on a Global Scale
From the Arctic tundra to Antarctica’s icy shorelines, bird flu is annihilating wildlife:
17,400 elephant seal pups — gone in weeks in Argentina
Only four Bald Eagle chicks found in Minnesota’s “eagle nirvana”
2,712 Humboldt Penguins dead in Chile
9,600 Sandwich Terns in the Netherlands
24,463 Cape Cormorants in South Africa
2,286 Dalmatian Pelicans in Greece
At least 406 wild bird species and 51 wild mammals are now infected. Australia is the only continent left untouched — for now.
And these are just the ones we are aware of.
This Is Not the Bird Flu of the Past
The strain behind this global outbreak, known as H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b, is nothing like its predecessors.
It first appeared in a goose in southern China in 1996.
It mutated, spread, and gained lethal new traits.
In 2021, it leapt the Atlantic and reached the Americas.
By 2024, it was confirmed in Antarctica — Earth’s last pristine frontier.
And now it’s killing far more than birds:
Seals.
Foxes.
Otters.
Even a polar bear in Alaska.
The virus is adapting fast, jumping between species, and spreading in new ways. Scientists are scrambling to keep up.
“We’re in uncharted territory. It’s doing things we’ve never seen before — and it shows no sign of stopping.”
The Collapse of Creation’s Order
This virus is more than a killer. It’s a disrupter. A destabiliser.
Northern Gannets, once apex ocean predators, have vanished in huge numbers.
Breeding colonies from Canada to Russia lie eerily silent.
Scavengers like Black Vultures are dying too — infected while cleaning up the corpses.
In Argentina, the breeding system of elephant seals — based on strict harems — has collapsed. There were no vocalisations. No structure. No future.
In Washington, 1,621 Caspian Terns died. In Russia, 3,500 northern fur seals. In Greece, entire colonies of pelicans disappeared overnight.
This is not just about wildlife. It’s about the ecosystems they hold together.
The Virus We’re Not Seeing
Perhaps the greatest tragedy? The vast majority of these deaths are invisible.
No one is monitoring remote coasts, tundra, or Antarctic rookeries.
Many countries lack even basic wildlife disease tracking.
Entire species could be declining — or vanishing — without record.
“A lot of mortality happens in wildlife and no one sees it.”
The virus kills quietly, far from human eyes, in places where no scientist will ever go.
A Warning From the Creator?
Here at The Big Wobble, we’ve long believed the Earth is groaning under the weight of human excess. (Earth Pangs) From pandemics to wildfires, floods to famine — and now, a silent mass extinction.
Is this avian apocalypse yet another divine warning?
A sign that we have broken the balance between man, nature, and the Creator?
“There are so many stressors... and this is just one more that creation didn’t need.”
When we cage billions of chickens, poison the seas, and strip the wild bare, should we be surprised that nature — and perhaps God — responds?
Flickers of Hope (Say The 'Experts')
Not all is lost, or so they say.
Some animals are developing antibodies. Survivors may now carry natural resistance. The Bald Eagle, despite its suffering, is showing signs of adaptation.
Vaccines are being deployed — including, astonishingly, to California Condors — after 21 of fewer than 600 remaining birds died in one outbreak.
And scientists are calling for global wildlife surveillance systems before it’s too late. Let us not forget that a World Government could always send in the X-Men.
Behold A Pale Horse . . .
Can any human government, group or organisation stop what God warned us must take place? Is the demise of our planet unstoppable and inevitable? Surely, the global bird flu crisis is another part of the end times trilogy in Mat 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21! Pestilence, delivered by the leader of the Four Horses of the Apocalypse?
Bird flu may never make the headlines the way COVID did. But its impact may be even deeper, longer-lasting, and more disturbing.
It is a mass extinction in slow motion.
It is a bioindicator of how far off course we’ve drifted.
It is a divine trumpet blast — if we have ears to hear it.
We will continue to turn away from our creator, it's written in the stars by the One who created them. We will soon find ourselves in a world where the birds no longer sing, and the wild no longer returns.
