Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 black birds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said it received reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. the previous night. The birds fell over a 1-mile (2-kilometer) area, 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. Officers estimated that over 1,000 birds had fallen out of the sky over the city before midnight. Most of the birds were dead, but some were still alive when officers arrived. The blackbirds fell over a one-mile area in the city.
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hmmmm maybe flashforward will have some answers to the mystery, I recall in that birds dropping from the sky.
Guess the evil birds just had to die on newyears eve, cos no bad luck needed this year
Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take those broken wings and learn to fly….
Isn’t that part of the plot from Flash Forward ?
possibly due to Flashforward!
maybe they took that song “bye bye blackbird” way too seriously!
Ask Derren. He keeps pet birds so he probably knows how susceptible they can be to sudden changes in temperature of 10 degrees C or more. Our feathered friends are able to deal very well with gradual temperature changes, but when they encounter a big change very rapidly the poor things’ defence mechanisms don’t kick-start quite quick enough and they can soon become deceased. No more. Pushing up the daisies. Kicked the bucket. Ex-blackbirds.
“No. No. They’re just stunned blackbirds”.
(sorry)