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Birds Fall From Sky

January 4, 2011 by · Comments Off on Birds Fall From Sky 

Birds Fall From Sky, (UKPA) – Workers of environmental services in the United States have been collecting the carcasses of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a city central Arkansas. Birds fell Friday night on an area a mile Beebe, 40 miles from Little Rock, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside this area.

Workers from U.S. Environmental Services began cleaning on Saturday and confirmed the last dead bird was deleted at 11am on Sunday morning. Beebe Mayor Mike Robertson said that workers were wearing protective suits for the withdrawal as a matter of routine and not out of fear that birds may be contaminated.

He said that speculation about the cause of death in birds does not focus on the disease or poisoning.

Several hundred thousand red-winged blackbirds have used a wooded area of the city as a staging area for the past few years, “he said. The mayor and other officials arrived at the roost at the weekend and found no dead birds on the ground.

“That the rules about an illness” or poisoning, said the mayor.

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed signs of physical trauma, and speculated that “the herd may have been struck by lightning or hail at high altitude.

The commission said that New Year revelers launch fireworks may have frightened the birds from their perch and the slew of stress.

Robby King, a wildlife officer of the commission, collected about 65 dead birds, which will be sent for analysis to the Livestock and Poultry Commission state laboratory and the National Wildlife Health Center.

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Dead Birds And Fish In Arkansas

January 4, 2011 by · Comments Off on Dead Birds And Fish In Arkansas 

Dead Birds And Fish In Arkansas, Near her car, a dead bird. A short walk to the mailbox, another. Scattered across her yard, a local woman discovered dozens of dead birds. “I’ve never seen anything like it. Never, “said Sandy discovery. Sandy, who asked us not to share her last name, first noticed the birds a few days ago, but clean, do not think twice. “I have animals in the open and just take; they are imported from around the neighborhood.” But when she noticed more birds on Monday morning, she panicked, I had just seen the story on the news about the bird in Arkansas and I was scared. ”

In fact, 3,000 blackbirds seemed to fall from the sky there starting last Friday. Autopsies have been ruled out poisoning. A biologist at Cornell University said that top the birds were probably asleep “…. in a single tree when a storm washing machine of the type drawn into the air, disoriented, and even fatally quenched and fees “.

Sandy was not sure what the birds had led to her court.

But off the bat, wildlife biologist Kent Ozment said he was not too concerned. “These birds are millions now. Six birds in a million really are not much. ” While he could not say with certainty, he guessed the birds simply succumbed to the elements: “Probably it was just a sort of winter stress.”

While Sandy says she was relieved to know that he was connected to nature, she still shudders at the discovery. “It’s really scary.” Local 6 checked with other fish of several outlets and wildlife and even some neighbors Sandy. No other birds have been discovered or reported.

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