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Post January 2nd, 2011, 12:24 pm
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More than 1,000 dead birds fall from sky in Arkansas

BEEBE, Ark. ????????? 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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Post January 2nd, 2011, 12:41 pm

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Think: you walk inside that area and BOOM, a dead bird falls on your head. A women will run and scream her lungs out of her body. [lol]
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There's obviously an invisible alien space craft that they all hit.

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^Next we'll start seeing lights apperaring over major cities. (/Signs reference)

Post January 2nd, 2011, 1:42 pm
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Was there not a tornado in that area New Years Eve? That could have done it.

Post January 2nd, 2011, 4:04 pm

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the movie birds came to my mind when i saw this :))
wow
fireworks = dead birds
or
aliens = dead birds

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