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More Than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Ark. (Arkansas)
AP via Yahoo News ^ | 2 Jan 2011 | AP

Posted on 01/02/2011 8:33:08 AM PST by edpc

BEEBE, Ark. – Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday that it began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The birds fell over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: arkansas; birds; napl
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To: RckyRaCoCo
Heh, we call them junk or garbage birds here.

I know. They are a nuisance. They flock around the house and roost on my best Ham antenna. Can't have that. But that's what my Wrist Rocket is for. Hazelnuts make fine projectiles for short range bird dispersers.

161 posted on 01/02/2011 1:15:40 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Inspiration. The momentary cessation of stupidity.)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Twas the Mare of Steel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AETyNpe4LE


162 posted on 01/02/2011 1:17:07 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
My daughter didn’t.

It's a great song to sing to little kids. But not at bedtime because it will open up a whole can of worms FILLED with question after question after question.

163 posted on 01/02/2011 1:17:45 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Inspiration. The momentary cessation of stupidity.)
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To: mywholebodyisaweapon

This happened before in this area a few years ago. Hundreds of snow geese were frozen and fell littering the ground. Fewer geese than the blackbirds but I’d hated to be driving along and have snow geese falling from the sky like hail.


164 posted on 01/02/2011 1:38:39 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: edpc

More than 500 measurable earthquakes have occurred in central Arkansas since September.


165 posted on 01/02/2011 1:43:30 PM PST by donna (Imagine...women who honor men enough not to tempt them.)
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To: edpc

Now they are reporting 20 miles of dead fish about a hundred miles from there in Clarksville


166 posted on 01/02/2011 1:44:51 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Colorado Doug

http://www.wreg.com/lifestyle/sns-ap-ar—deadfish,0,7329721.story


167 posted on 01/02/2011 1:48:09 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: edpc

First thing that came to mind.

168 posted on 01/02/2011 2:04:07 PM PST by pulaskibush (Thou shalt tax/steal from Peter to help Paul/Pablo is not in the Bible!)
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To: GOYAKLA
"Pi are round cake are square!"

Um...

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169 posted on 01/02/2011 2:13:44 PM PST by IYellAtMyTV (Workday Forecast--Increasing pressure towards afternoon. Rum likely by evening.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“turdus merula”

With my tagline, and “About” page,,, I’m gonna have to remember this one!


170 posted on 01/02/2011 2:32:29 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: edpc

Update: Thousands of birds fall from the sky in Beebe

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136195&catid=2

And now fish in Arkansas...

State commission says dead fish now cover 20-mile section of Arkansas River

http://www.wreg.com/lifestyle/sns-ap-ar—deadfish,0,7329721.story


171 posted on 01/02/2011 2:37:39 PM PST by FromLori (FromLori)
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To: HighWheeler

Wow, that is really amazing. They remind me of schools of bait fish in the ocean. It’s fun to be down on the bottom and observe the fish above. It looks similar to the birds.


172 posted on 01/02/2011 3:32:37 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: FromLori

Hmmm, that’s strange. If it was just the birds... but fish too? Now I’m cautiously suspicious as to what happened. No tin foil hat... yet.


173 posted on 01/02/2011 3:43:53 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1400 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: mojitojoe

It looks like both of these places are along the Arkansas River. I immediately suspect some kind of poisoning event. I would be interested in what kinds of similar toxins the scientists find in the dead animals.


174 posted on 01/02/2011 5:50:57 PM PST by NerdDad (Aug 7, 1981, I married my soul mate, CDBEAR. 29 years and I'm still teenager-crazy in love with her.)
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To: crazyhorse691

Very interesting.


175 posted on 01/03/2011 7:23:43 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Inspiration. The momentary cessation of stupidity.)
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To: edpc; cripplecreek; Rockiette; umgud; Tijeras_Slim; Right Brother; razorback-bert
As if 1000's of birds weren't enough, there is this story about hundreds of thousands of fish dying in Akrkansas. What the hell is going on down there?

Thousands of fish found dead on shore of Arkansas River

176 posted on 01/03/2011 8:14:04 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Inspiration. The momentary cessation of stupidity.)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Don’t worry, the good citizens of Beebe are probably just typical white people.


177 posted on 01/03/2011 10:56:11 AM PST by AdamBomb
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