Why did 2,000 dead birds fall from sky?

Over 1,000 Blackbirds Dropped Dead From The Sky in Arkansas This Weekend
Photo: Wiki The quiet town of Beebe, Arkansas woke up on Saturday, January 1, 2011, to find thousands of dead red-winged blackbirds on the ground. The bird corpses stretched for miles, yet an aerial survey showed that no other dead birds were found outside this specific area. "I thought the mayor was messing with me when he called me," a town street supervisor said. "He got me up at 4'oclock in the morning and told me we...

Temps plummet in twister-stricken areas
One day after a violent storm system roared through parts of the nation's midsection, spawning tornadoes in several cities in Missouri and Arkansas, freezing temperatures Saturday threatened to compound the plight of Victims left Homeless due to the weather. Temperatures in Sunset Hills, Missouri, dropped Saturday to 16 degrees Fahrenheit - with a wind chill of 7 degrees below zero, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures dipped into the 20s in parts of Mississippi, wh...

Deadly tornadoes claim 7th victim
Shaken residents spent New Year’s Day sifting through the wreckage wrought by tornadoes that touched down in several states on the last day of 2010, killing seven people and injuring dozens of others. Six people — three in Missouri and three in Arkansas — died Friday as tornadoes fueled by unusually warm air pummeled the South and Midwest. A seventh person who was injured Friday in Missouri died Saturday, said Bruce Southard, the chief of the Rolla Rural Fire Department. The wo...

Six die as tornadoes rip through America
TORNADOES hammered America's South and Midwest on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more. Three people died in Arkansas when a tornado hit just before sunrise, and three others died when a storm spawned by the same weather system ripped through rural Missouri. A number of storms were also reported in the St Louis area, fuelled by a high p ADVERTISEMENT ressure front and unseasonably warm air. Storms later knocked out power to more than 19,000 Mississippi residents, while ...

Sugar Bowl Preview Capsule
No. 6 Ohio State (11-1) vs. No. 8 Arkansas (10-2), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Series Record: First meeting. The Buckeyes are winless in nine tries against the SEC in bowl games, and are playing an Arkansas team making its first appearance in a BCS bowl. Ohio State will have star Quarterback Terrelle Pryor and three other offensive starters despite earning Suspensions for the first five games next season as NCAA-imposed punishment for selling Memorabilia and getting discounts on Tattoos. The Razorbacks, me...

Black birds fall from sky, fish die off: What's a conspiracy theorist to think?
Absent a final explanation, wild theories abound concerning reasons Arkansans' saw black birds fall from sky and fish die off en masse. The event revives superstitions about birds as omens....

Tornadoes leave trail of devastation through US
Blown apart ... a Police Officer helps evacuate residents from their wrecked home in Missouri. Tornadoes have killed six people. Photo: AP Little Rock, Arkansas: Tornadoes fuelled by unusually warm weather pummelled the south and midwest of the United States on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. Forecasters were expecting more storms to hit along a stretch from near Chicago to New Orleans. Three people died in the northwestern Ark...

Thousands of Dead Blackbirds and Dead Fish in Arkansas: Was this Planned?
Beebe, Arkansas residents ask: If THEY need HazMat gear, are WE safe? Channeling the George Noory show isn’t my usual blog genre, but it just so happens that I was in the Ozarks over Christmas and New Year’s so I was very close to where this story is happening.  While I waited at Springfield, Missouri’s airport Sunday everyone was talking about this and rightfully so.  Hundreds of thousands of dead drum fish and 5,000 dead blackbirds.  Plenty to set the apocalyps...

Dead birds fall from sky in Arkansas
Beebe, Arkansas - Approximately 5,000 Red-winged Blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Years eve, and are dead. Beyond that, no one is yet sure about what happened. Speculation and idle chatter seem common. Fox News, for example, had this commentary to add: 'It's not the first time birds have dropped from the Arkansas sky. Lightning killed ducks at Hot Springs in 2001 and hail knocked birds from the sky at Stuttgart in 1973 on the day before hunting season' CNN.com had an interview with Karen Ro...

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 tr...

More than 2,000 dead birds fall from sky in Arkansas
Stumble This! Mayor in Ark. town where thousands of dead birds fell from sky says they're all picked up Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town. Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 workers, hired by the city to do the cleanu...

Blunt Force Trauma, Not Disease Nor Poison, Killed Arkansas Birds
What is this? Their stomachs were empty, which rules out poison, Dr. George Badley said, and they died in midair, not on impact with the ground. That evidence, and the fact that the red-winged blackbirds fly in close flocks, suggests they suffered some massive midair collision, he added. That lends weight to theories that they were startled by something. CNN reports that the autopsies revealed trauma to the breasts and "internal hemorrhage." But, in conflict with MSNBC's report, Karen Rowe,...

Massive bird deaths likely caused by loud noises
Source: USA Today By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY A mysterious event that caused thousands of red-wing blackbirds to rain down from the sky New Year's Eve in the Arkansas town of Beebe most likely occurred when loud noises and Fireworks frightened a flock that roosts in a neighborhood, causing them to die when they flew into buildings and other obstacles, a state ornithologist said. Preliminary necropsies on the dead birds by the state Livestock and Poultry Commission "showed trauma. The birds obv...

Illinois tornado winds measured 136 mph
PETERSBURG -- The National Weather Service says a powerful New Year's Eve storm that destroyed nearly two dozen homes in central Illinois was a tornado. The weather service office in Lincoln says most of the damage was in the Lake Petersburg area in Menard County. The tornado's maximum estimated wind speed was 136 mph and it was classified EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The weather service says the tornado's estimated maximum width was 200 yards and was on the ground for about 3.6 miles. To...

Over 1,000 Dead Birds Fall On Small Arkansas Town On New Years Eve
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Birds Fall From Sky In Arkansas (VIDEO)
It remains a mystery why thousands of birds fell from the sky and were found dead this past weekend in the small Arkansas town of Beebe. The AP reports: Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 workers, hired by the city to do the cleanup, wore environmental-protection suits for the task. The birds had fallen Friday night over a 1-mile area of Beebe, a...

Why did thousands of birds fall from sky?
Bemused U.S. officials are looking into why more than 1,000 blackbirds crashed from the sky in Arkansas on the final day of 2010. In scenes reminiscent of the FlashForward drama series, state wildlife employees were searching the town of Beebe after scores of birds fell to the ground late on New Year's Eve, continuing into the early hours of the morning. High winds and tornadoes swept through Arkansas on New Year's Eve, killing seven people, and state staff believe the bizarre incident could be ...

Japan on alert after finding dead birds
TOKYO, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Recent discovery of several dead migratory birds in Japan has raised concerns about H5NI avian Influenza, avian experts said. Bird sanctuaries, Poultry farms and zoos were put on high alert last month after the migratory birds in some region were found dead, The New York Times reported Monday. The Times cited Japanese media reports collected by ProMED, which monitors disease outbreaks. The reports included one that a hooded crane was found dead on the Izumi Plain in Kagosh...

No sign dead birds were poisoned
BEEBE, Ark., Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Wildlife officials say the 2,000-3,000 birds that fell dead from the sky in Beebe, Ark., New Year's Eve exhibited no sign of poisoning. Beebe Police Department said it began receiving complaints Friday about dead birds falling from the sky, landing on roofs and littering yards for about a mile between U.S. 367 and the Arkansas State University campus, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Monday. Mayor Mike Robertson said what did kill the birds hadn't been determi...

Thousands of dead birds picked up in Ark. town
BEEBE, Ark. (AP) — Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town. Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 workers, hired by the city to do the cleanup, wore environmental-protection suits for the task. The birds had fallen Friday ...

100,000 Dead Fish in Arkansas Found Near Where 5,000 Blackbirds Dropped Dead
This weekend 5,000 birds, mostly Redwing Blackbirds, fell from the sky in Arkansas. The dead birds littered the ground on New Years morning. 100,000 dead drum fish washed up on shore on the banks of the Arkansas River not far from where 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead this weekend. AN estimated 100,000 fish have died in the northwest of Arkansas, the same state where up to 5000 dead birds recently fell from the sky. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said it suspected disease was to blame for t...

End Of Days?: 100,000 Fish Die Suddenly In Arkansas After 5,000 Dead Birds Are Found
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End Of Days? 100,000 Fish Die Suddenly In Arkansas After 5,000 Dead Birds Are Found
The town of Beebe, Arkansas suffered an eerie occurrence on New Year’s Eve last weekend: over 5,000 lifeless bird tragically fell from the sky. Impossibly, things appear to have gotten stranger in rural Arkansas as reports have surfaced of over 100,000 drum fish suddenly dying off roughly 100 miles west of the massive bird die-off. As was reported earlier, an AP interview with an expert affiliated with the state’s Livestock and Poultry Commission suggested that the birds may have died as...

Dead Birds and Fish in Arkansas: Submit Your Theories
There’s something strange and unnatural going on in Arkansas. No, not that… I’m talking about this : The town of Beebe, Arkansas suffered an eerie occurrence on New Year’s Eve last weekend: over 5,000 lifeless bird tragically fell from the sky. Impossibly, things appear to have gotten stranger in rural Arkansas as reports have surfaced of over 100,000 drum fish suddenly dying off roughly 100 miles west of the massive bird die-off. As was reported earlier, an AP interview...

US: Thousands of Dead Birds Picked Up in Arkansas Town
© AP Photo An Environmental Services worker picks up a dead bird in Beebe, Ark. as other dead birds line the street behind him. Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town. Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. Sunday in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 workers, hire...