Arkansas game officials probe mystery of falling birds (5,000) update.

CNN ^ | Jan 2nd, 2011

[TaraP]

CNN) -- Arkansas game officials hope testing scheduled to begin Monday will solve the mystery of why up to 5,000 blackbirds fell from the sky just before midnight New Year's Eve.

The birds -- most of which were dead -- were found within a one-mile area of Beebe, about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said. The blackbirds fell over about a one-mile area, the commission said in a statement.

As of Saturday, between 4,000 and 5,000 blackbirds had been found dead, said Keith Stephens with the commission.

"Shortly after I arrived, there were still birds falling from the sky," said commission wildlife officer Robby King in the statement. He said he collected about 65 dead birds

[TaraP]

[jafojeffsurf]

Gas?

[Dick Bachert]

OK, who farted??

[Tijeras_Slim]

Updated:

166.67 to 208.33

[shelterguy]

Obviously it’s due to the global warming/cooling/crisis deal. /s

[tet68]

Fortean Bump.

[bikerman]

Obama’s fault

[Brilliant]

Well my first thought was poison gas, and my second thought was a suicide pigeon.

[Sacajaweau]

did the tornados put something in the air...

[Kozak]

Bush’s fault. He don ‘t care about black birds....

[eastforker]

[TaraP]

Maybe these Volcanic Eruptions...

Mount Etna just erupted

http://www.etnaweb.net/nunziata/webcam.php

[Sacajaweau]

And they’re waiting till Monday because?? Ohh...Union folks....

[9422WMR]

This is hugh and series.....

[Tucker39]

Has anyone had the presence of mind to autopsy a few of them. Looks to me like some good old boy down there got tired of all the bird $hit and scattered some poison or something. I don’t know about THAT area in Arkansas, but I have seen blackbird and/or starling flocks that practically black out the sky.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“This is hugh and series.....”

No! It’s mute, and irrevalunt!

[GeronL]

how close is this to Guy, Arkansas?

[goat granny]

Been to Arkansas, they were just bored to death..

[Wuli]

It’s Bush’s fault, for sure!!! /sarc

[Track9]

Black bird singing in the dead of night..

[Personal Responsibility]

Sounds like a plot from Flash Forward.

[PLMerite]

Raining birds.

Better than hailing taxicabs.

I’ll be in town all week.

[Ben Hecks]

Got sucked up in a tornado updraft. Ran out of oxygen at 60,000 ft. Passed out. Killed by fall.

[lonevoice]

Wowser. When I pinged you to the first article this morning about this, it was 1,000 birds. Now they’re saying it’s 4,000-5,000 birds.

[Steely Tom]

I was testing one of Nicolai Tesla's designs in my basement. Had a huge unexplained power draw just before midnight. Nothing got hot on my end, seemed strange. I figured, you know, "one of those things."

[hoosiermama]

Four and twenty black birds
Bake in a pie...

As the pie was opened the birds began to sing.

“Where or where is the BC? Obama end this thing!”

Ka-BOOM

[NorwegianViking]

Hundreds of thousands of fish die along 20 mile acre area From Ozark to Clarksville in Arkansas

I wonder if the two events are connected? Some say that there is an old caldera that is becoming active again.

[yarddog]

I read an article many years ago which seemed pretty well documented about the demise of the passenger pigeon.

Contrary to popular belief they were not hunted to extinction but died in a freak weather occurrence, maybe an ice storm but can’t recall for sure.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That looks like a starling to me.

Not the same as a blackbird, as opposed to a black bird.

[deport]

166.67 to 208.33

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Yep gonna have to get much larger freezers.... or take one a pass it around.

[donna]

More than 500 measurable earthquakes have occurred in central Arkansas since September.

[9422WMR]

There is a nuclear reactor just south east of Clarksville.
Maybe they had a release of radioactive gas!
RUN FOR YOU LIVES, birds and fish most at risk.
Film at eleven.

[Gator113]

Obviously the White crackers are trying to kill off the blackbirds.

[gitmo]

I saw this on Flash Forward. It’s series.

[gitmo]

Muslim Terrorists?

[TaraP]

Thousands of Birds fall from the sky in South America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlH3BgKPxk&feature=player_embedded

JAN 2nd, 2011

[Cementjungle]

Jihad birds on a failed suicide mission.

[Red Badger]

My guess, poisoned food.....

[TaraP]

They both fell from Arkansas and South America in the same time frame...Doubt it was from food poisoning....

[Colonel_Flagg]

Women and minorities hardest hit.

[Red Badger]

Its nott the fall thar killed them, it was the sudden stop at the end.....

[Esther Ruth]

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/48485/

[Red Badger]

Chinese food.......

[Ellendra]

Hundreds of thousands of fish die along 20 mile acre area From Ozark to Clarksville in Arkansas

I'm familiar with miles and acres, but how big is a mile acre?

[ProudFossil]

I am anxious to start a conspiracy. Can anybody tell me if Beebe voted for Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin?

[The Comedian]

Raining birds.

Better than hailing taxicabs.

I’ll be in town all week.

That's going to be a really tough post to beat.

And since I'm feeling really lazy, I'm just going to post a Hitchcock reference and move to another thread.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[bunkerhill7]

Arkansas game officials find answer to mystery of falling birds (5,000) update.:

Gravity

[AGreatPer]

I saw this happen on a much smaller scale about two years ago.

There is an area where black birds collect for some reason next to a busy bridge.

Lightning caused it.

[Publius]

When the birds start whistling “Deutschland über alles”, you know you’re in trouble.