Pictures: Birds Fall From Sky in ArkansasMore than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds mysteriously tumbled dead from the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told the Associated Press. (Visit National Geographic's backyard birding central.)
A preliminary report-released Monday by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission-suggests the birds died of trauma of unknown cause.
"The birds obviously hit something very hard and had hemorrhages," game-and-fish commission bird expert Karen Rowe told CNN.
This event coincided with
100,000 dead drum fish washing up on the river banks in Arkansas. "The birds obviously hit something very hard and had hemorrhages." I think they struck a UFO while the aliens were experimenting on the water supply! ;)