More Than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall From Sky In Ark. (Arkansas)

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 2 Jan 2011 | AP

[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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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.

[TASMANIANRED]

Twas the Mare of Steel.

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

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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.

[vetvetdoug]

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.

[donna]

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

[Colorado Doug]

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

[Colorado Doug]

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

[pulaskibush]

First thing that came to mind.

[IYellAtMyTV]

"Pi are round cake are square!"

Um...

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“turdus merula”

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

[FromLori]

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

[mojitojoe]

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.

[mojitojoe]

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.

[NerdDad]

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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Very interesting.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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

[AdamBomb]

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