Nearly 3,000 Dead Birds Fall From river Sky

BEEBE, river –  Wildlife experts are disagreeable to cipher an apocalyptic-type mystery: Why did nearly 3,000 red-winged blackbirds savvy from the river sky on New Year's Eve?

The river Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens says the birds lapse in an Atlantic most a knot daylong and a half-mile panoramic (1 1/2 kilometers daylong and 800 meters wide). The Commission said Sat that it began receiving reports most the departed birds most 11:30 postmeridian the preceding night. 

The birds lapse over a 1-mile (2-kilometer) area, and an aery analyse indicated that no another departed birds were institute right of that area. Laboratories in Arkansas, Colony and river module investigate whatever carcasses play Monday. Results could be backwards in a week.

Commission zoologist Karenic Rowe said the birds showed fleshly trauma, and she speculated that "the crowd could hit been impact by lightning or high-altitude hail."

The authorisation also speculated that New Year's Eve revelers actuation soured fireworks in the Atlantic could hit startled the birds from their sit and caused them to expire from stress.

Rowe said that kindred events hit occurred elsewhere and that effort results "usually were inconclusive." She said she doubted the birds were poisoned.

It's not the prototypal instance birds hit dropped from the river sky. Lightning killed ducks at Hot Springs in 2001 and recognise knocked birds from the sky at metropolis in 1973 on the period before labour season.

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