Posted on 01/02/2011 2:40:21 PM PST by TaraP
CNN) -- Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year's Eve.
The birds -- most of which were dead -- were found within a one-mile area of Beebe, about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said. The blackbirds fell over about a one-mile area, the commission said in a statement.
As of Saturday, between 4,000 and 5,000 blackbirds had been found dead, said Keith Stephens with the commission.
"Shortly after I arrived, there were still birds falling from the sky," said commission wildlife officer Robby King in the statement. He said he collected about 65 dead birds
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Black bird singing in the dead of night..
Sounds like a plot from Flash Forward.
Raining birds.
Better than hailing taxicabs.
I’ll be in town all week.
Got sucked up in a tornado updraft. Ran out of oxygen at 60,000 ft. Passed out. Killed by fall.
Wowser. When I pinged you to the first article this morning about this, it was 1,000 birds. Now they’re saying it’s 4,000-5,000 birds.
Four and twenty black birds
Bake in a pie...
As the pie was opened the birds began to sing.
“Where or where is the BC? Obama end this thing!”
Ka-BOOM
I wonder if the two events are connected? Some say that there is an old caldera that is becoming active again.
I read an article many years ago which seemed pretty well documented about the demise of the passenger pigeon.
Contrary to popular belief they were not hunted to extinction but died in a freak weather occurrence, maybe an ice storm but can’t recall for sure.
Not the same as a blackbird, as opposed to a black bird.
166.67 to 208.33
Yep gonna have to get much larger freezers.... or take one a pass it around.
More than 500 measurable earthquakes have occurred in central Arkansas since September.
There is a nuclear reactor just south east of Clarksville.
Maybe they had a release of radioactive gas!
RUN FOR YOU LIVES, birds and fish most at risk.
Film at eleven.
Obviously the White crackers are trying to kill off the blackbirds.
I saw this on Flash Forward. It’s series.
Muslim Terrorists?
Thousands of Birds fall from the sky in South America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlH3BgKPxk&feature=player_embedded
JAN 2nd, 2011
Jihad birds on a failed suicide mission.
My guess, poisoned food.....
They both fell from Arkansas and South America in the same time frame...Doubt it was from food poisoning....
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