[Greysard]

That supports the theory that fireworks on New Year's Eve spooked the birds and sent them flying into cars, houses and each other and plummeting to their deaths.

It is surprising that birds never did that before, especially the "plummeting to their deaths" part. Perhaps global warming is at fault here, or perhaps Bush? :-)

It doesn't take more than a few seconds of bird-watching to realize that a spooked bird never flies into the ground. It flies into the sky. A few birds who failed to learn this trick died young.

[Giento]

Perhaps it was a combination of fireworks mixed with something else?

I think the 1 thing you are all forgetting to ask yourselves here “what would cause 5000+ birds of specifically just 1 species to suddenly drop dead? Or fall out of the sky and then die from impact?”

Everything I have heard so far would cause any birds in that area to all die, regardless of species. But a mass extinction of just 1 particular species, sounds godly or type biblical to me.

And come on your gonna try and front and say that thousands of a particular species of fish also suddenly die right around the corner, days apart and there is no connection? COME'ON SON!!! (Ed lover voice, youtube it). This was something crazy, something biblical or military or maybe even extra terrestrial, WHO REALLY KNOWS ANYWAYS???

I think this is going to be a mystery for a while, no debunking here anytime soon!!