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 it began receiving reports on the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. Friday night. The birds fell over a 1-mile area in Beebe, northeast of Little Rock in central Arkansas. An aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside the area.
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 at the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Wisconsin.
Rowe said similar events had occurred elsewhere and that test results “usually were inconclusive.” She said she doubted the birds were poisoned.
CNN report on the incidents :
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I Really hope someone pays attenction to this post…. Being that there is fish witch is water born and Birds witch are air born you might looking for the possibility of a massave gas release. It could be methane or some sort of sulfur… I have benn noticing alot of sizemac activity in Arkansa in the recent months check with the usgs earthquake place and they will tell you where… if there is a gas release it will start in or around water and will be really hard to detect. if people were to track the fish and the birds they should be able to come close to the problem…..this has happened before and it took scientist a desaster of human life to find it. it happened in africa with methane and at yellowstone with sulfur dioxide, not positive on yellowstone going off memery i thought i raed something about it a couple years ago…
good luck i hope it is nothing series. and it is something to think about.
The same thing happen in Louisiana this week, yes it was not has many but 500+ birds is a lot too. Just seems odd to me. I do live in AR and have never heard of anything like the things that have been happing here lately. A bunch of small earthquakes at least one a week (we don’t have them here), birds and fish dying in the masses. Who knows what else has or will happen…. I just hope they figure it out soon.
The same thing happen in Louisiana this week, yes it was not has many but 500+ birds is a lot too. Just seems odd to me. I do live in AR and have never heard of anything like the things that have been happing here lately. A bunch of small earthquakes at least one a week (we don’t have them here), birds and fish dying in the masses. Who knows what else has or will happen…. I just hope they figure it out soon.
maybe its our government testing something. next it’ll be all of us!