Arkansas Bird

The mysterious deaths of Blackbirds on New Year's Eve in Arkansas and similar other incidents are receiving a lot of attention in blogosphere. Some bloggers are calling it an "aflockalypse" - but there are more serious discussions too.Biologists say that these mass die-offs happen all the time. These incidents are usually unrelated can be caused by...

Blackbirds are having hard time staying alive in the Southeastern U-S. Just a few days after as many as 5 thousand fell from the sky in Arkansas, some 500 birds dropped to their death in Louisiana.It's unclear if the cases are related - wildlife officials in both states are sending carcasses to a federal lab and the University of Georgia for testin...

Times Square had the ball drop, and Brasstown, NC, had its descending possum. But no place had a New Year's Eve as unusual, or freakishly disturbing, as Beebe, Ark.Around 11 that night, thousands of red-winged blackbirds began falling out of the sky over this small city about 35 miles northeast of Little Rock. They landed on roofs, roads, front law...

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 ...

The mysterious deaths of Blackbirds on New Year's Eve in Arkansas and similar other incidents are receiving a lot of attention in blogosphere. Some bloggers are calling it an "aflockalypse" - but there are more serious discussions too.Biologists say that these mass die-offs happen all the time. These incidents are usually unrelated can be caused by...

Blackbirds are having hard time staying alive in the Southeastern U-S. Just a few days after as many as 5 thousand fell from the sky in Arkansas, some 500 birds dropped to their death in Louisiana.It's unclear if the cases are related - wildlife officials in both states are sending carcasses to a federal lab and the University of Georgia for testin...

Times Square had the ball drop, and Brasstown, NC, had its descending possum. But no place had a New Year's Eve as unusual, or freakishly disturbing, as Beebe, Ark.Around 11 that night, thousands of red-winged blackbirds began falling out of the sky over this small city about 35 miles northeast of Little Rock. They landed on roofs, roads, front law...

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 ...