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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.

Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed physical trauma, and she speculated that "the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."

The commission said that New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.

Robby King, a wildlife officer for the agency, collected about 65 dead birds, which will be sent for testing to the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison, Wis.

Rowe said that similar events have occurred elsewhere and that test results "usually were inconclusive." She said she doubted the birds were poisoned.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Must've been the chemtrails. Or HAARP... ;)

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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Dammit....


Who farted?

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Must've been the chemtrails. Or HAARP... ;)

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
birds probably ate the fish

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Originally posted by traveler:
I was reading the book "Ghost Soldiers" about the rescue of US soldiers from a Japanese prison in the Philippines when I came to this episode. US Rangers were walking quietly behind enemy lines, to do the rescue, when they started hearing thuds all around them. They thought they had been discovered and they went to ground waiting for a fire fight to begin. Time passed and no gun fire. They started to explore the area around them and discovered birds lying dead all around them. They had simply fallen out of the sky.
So this event has been reported before. There may be other instances that never got reported or no one has kept track of them.


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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
The best theory I've heard on birds is fireworks smoke.

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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
The best theory I've heard on birds is fireworks smoke.

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I don't buy it. This is a small town in Arkansas - how many freaking fireworks were they alleged to have set off?

And why aren't there dead birds falling all over every town square in the country on every July 4th?

Sorry, but this theory doesn't pass the sniff test (no pun intended).

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I don't buy it. This is a small town in Arkansas - how many freaking fireworks were they alleged to have set off?

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Yet another weapons technology has been under development for some decades. Scalar technology—invented by the genius Nikola Tesla early in the 20th Century—has the potential to turn the environment itself into a weapon and tune its deadly properties into a merciless, near instantaneous killer.

That advanced technology may have just been tested in Arkansas and Louisiana.

Ominous evidence is steadily growing that the bizarre red wing blackbird deaths—now being reported across three states—are not natural.

Although some scientists have proposed that the initial bird death—numbered at 5,000—might have been caused by fireworks, ornithologists scoff at that suggestion.

Other theories floating about include speculation that severe updrafts or a local micro-burst killed all the birds, yet that is highly improbable and does not jive with eyewitness testimony of local residents who watched the birds literally drop from the sky.

Other witnessed claim that not all the birds that fell were already dead. Some were still alive and appeared confused or dazed. A few even made desperate attempts to seek shelter inside houses—seemingly trying to escape whatever was killing them outdoors.

A freak meteorological phenomenon also cannot account for reports of mass bird deaths that followed the Arkansas incident. Red wing blackbirds have also been seen falling out of the skies over Louisiana and reported by an eyewitness in Kentucky.

"The birds suffered from acute physical trauma leading to internal hemorrhage and death," the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said in a statement Monday. "There was no sign of chronic or infectious disease."

That eliminates the possibility of West Nile virus or some other avian illness.

According to NBC News, Arkansas's official state veterinarian, Dr. George Badley, stated the blackbirds died in mid-flight, not upon impact with the ground after they fell.

Either the birds ran into something…or something ran into the birds.

Much more at link.

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Although some scientists have proposed that the initial bird death—numbered at 5,000—might have been caused by fireworks, ornithologists scoff at that suggestion.

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Could the Earth's magnetic fields be causing the recent die-off of thousands of birds and fish? Scientists believe so, along with environmental imbalances.

The sudden death of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas over the 2010-2011 New Year's holiday last weekend was newsworthy enough. Within a couple of days, hundreds of stories from all around the globe recounted similar phenomena. Not only have blackbirds been "falling out of the sky," but many species of birds,as well as reported cases of bat deaths in Arizona. In addition, there are numerous reports being gathered from around the world about massive fish die-off, and die-off of many different sea animals. What could be causing these deaths? Some researchers believe that changes in the Earth's magnetic fields are to blame.

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