1000 Dead Birds Fall From Sky

[Andrea]

I just saw this on the internet now...it's kind of freaking me out.  More than 1000 dead black birds fell out of the sky over a city in Arkansas on New Year's eve, around 11:30 p.m.

This is just too weird...another strange coincidence...what does it mean?

Here's one of the articles on it:

More than 1,000 dead birds fall from sky in Ark.

BEEBE, Ark. — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said Saturday more than 1,000 dead blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe.

The agency said its enforcement officers began receiving reports about the dead birds about 11:30 p.m. Friday. The birds fell over a one-mile area of the city, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area, officials said.

Robby King, a wildlife officer for the agency, collected about 65 dead birds, which will be sent for testing to the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison, Wis.

Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said that similar events have occurred elsewhere and that test results "usually were inconclusive."

The birds showed physical trauma, said Rowe, who surmised that "the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."

The agency also said another possibility is that New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.

It's doubtful the birds were poisoned, Rowe said, "since it only involved a flock of blackbirds and only involved them falling out of the sky." She said a necropsy is the only way to determine if the birds were poisoned.

The city of Beebe hired U.S. Environmental Services to clean up and dispose of the dead birds.

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[willddoMJ]

means 2012 is around the corner  :lol: , fireworks occure at 12am, not 11.30pm, dont know why tv said may of been that, at stressed them to much, is what they said here, or weather related

[Serenitys_Dream]

Dead fish cover 20-miles of Arkansas River
 Katherina- Marie Yancy     3 hrs ago

Arkansas Game & Fish is trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in Northwest Arkansas turned up dead. They were found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County.

The 20-mile stretch along the Arkansas River where an estimated 100,000 drum fish were found washed ashore and floating looks much different now.

Keith Stephens with Game and Fish explains, "We got a call last week from a tug boat operator that found the fish out on the river along the bank, in the river channel and we immediately dispatched somebody to the area to take a look."

Investigators from local and state agencies took samples from the affected area. Stephens says fish kills occur every year, but the magnitude of this one is unusual, and disease could be the cause.

A pollutant would have affected cross species. Stephens says, "Ninety-nine percent of them were Drum, which is a bottom feeder. It's not a game fish in Arkansas."

Some fish collected were alive and visibly sick. They have been taken to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for testing.

The affected area was never closed and fishing is encouraged. "Right now it's fine to fish. If you go out there you can still fish for bass and crappie, catfish, it will be fine. Obviously don't' eat the dead fish."

As for clean up, nature is taking its course. "We'll have raccoon and birds and things like that will take care of it so there is really no clean up, it's really too big. It's contained along the river channel."

Officials expect to have an exact estimate on how many fish died by Monday. They will release the test results as soon as they get them.

The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission is also investigating thousands of dead birds in Beebe.
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Update: Thousands of birds fall from the sky in Beebe (Arkansas)
 Ashley Blackstone  Katherina- Marie Yancy     1 day ago

Just before folks in Beebe rang in the New Year, many witnessed an uncanny resemblance to the Hitchcock movie "The Birds." About 2,000 black birds fell from the sky off Windwood Drive, leaving quite the mess to clean up.

Folks Today's THV spoke with initially thought the birds were poisoned because they are what they call a nuisance around this time every year, but they are surprised to hear it is more of a mystery.

Stephen Bryant recalls, "Millions, millions fly over every night. You look up at the sky and it's just black and then last night at about 10:30 I came out here and saw a bird drop."

In a matter of hours on New Years Eve thousands of birds fell from the sky to their death.

Melissa Weatherly says, "I immediately called mom because I had to go to work, I said you have to come get the kids and get the dog because I don't know what's going on." She continues, "It was horrible; you could not even get down the road without running over hundreds. It was that bad."

The mystery is unraveling like scenes from a movie, dozens of U.S. Environmental Services crews spent the day picking up the birds, walking between homes and climbing on roofs with protective hazmat suits and breathing masks,.

Charles Boldrey stands outside watching the crews, "Nobody knows, I asked these guys who are out here picking them up and they don't seem to know anything. Nobody seems to know anything. It just kind of freaked everybody out."

Officials with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission flew over the area and determined it's a one mile stretch. There are a variety of dead black birds, mostly red winged and a duck was also found.

No one has been evacuated because the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) air test came back clean for toxins.

Weatherly is skeptical, "They're walking around in masks and I'm wandering do we need the same thing because what makes that happen for them to drop out of the sky like that."

Katherina Yancy with Today's THV found one bird still living. It was confused, injured, continuously walked in circles and didn't make a sound or attempt to fly.

Officials will confirm their findings when they get the test results, until then they are giving these possible scenarios: lightning, stress, high altitude hail or startled by fireworks, but neighbors just want answers.

Bryant says, "Something out of a movie and Hazmat people are walking around not telling us anything."

Boldrey adds, "I'd like to know. Kind of spooky, you never know what's going to happen."

The birds should be cleaned up by Sunday. Game and Fish Commission's Karen Rowe says poisoning doesn't appear to be the case and strange events similar to this have occurred across the globe a number of times.

The City of Beebe held an emergency city council meeting Saturday morning to approve paying the U.S. Environmental Services to clean the neighborhood.

Sixty-five dead birds have been sent to off for testing.
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[MJonmind1]

Very strange story. Especially with 11:30, and Ark. One commenter asked-- wasn't the Beatles song about blackbirds falling in the dead of night, but it's

"Blackbird"
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
all your life
you were only waiting for this moment to be free

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise,
You were only waiting for this moment to arise,
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

This also reminds me of the movie "The Core" 2003 where I remember at the beginning (it's very dramatic) birds (I think black) fall from the sky by the thousands in about a similar mile area, the first sign of something wrong with the electromagnetic part of earth that birds need to navigate.

"After a series of strange events (including birds falling) over the world connected by variances in the Earth's electromagnetic field, leading geology expert Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart), a University of Chicago professor, teams with Serge Leveque (Tchéky Karyo) and Conrad Zimsky (Stanley Tucci) to learn that the rotation of Earth's molten core is slowing down, leading eventually to the collapse of the electromagnetic field which will expose the surface to the Sun's lethal radiation. The three develop a top-secret plan with the United States government to bore into the Earth's core and plant a series of nuclear charges at precise points to restart the core's motion and restore the field."

"Destini" in the movie reminds me of "HAARP". Unfortunately this trailer doesn't show the birds falling part.  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login)
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This is one commenter after The Core trailer.

coincidence? today january the 2nd 2011 large numbers of bird fell from the sky
Google this headline: 1,000 Birds Fall from Arkansas Sky in Hitchcockian Scene
ENJOYOURMATRIXX 3 hours ago

[Serenitys_Dream]

Arkansas
The name "Arkansas" derives from the same root as the name for the state of Kansas. The Kansas tribe of Native Americans are closely associated with the Sioux tribes of the Great Plains. The word "Arkansas" itself is a French pronunciation ("Arcansas") of a Quapaw (a related "Kaw" tribe) word "akakaze" meaning "land of downriver people" or the Sioux word "Akakaze" meaning "people of the south wind".
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The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy: [has just arrived in Oz, looking around and awed at the beauty and splendor] Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.
Dorothy: [after a pause] We must be over the rainbow!
[a bubble appears in the sky and gets closer and closer. It finally lands, then turns into Glinda the Good Witch wearing a spectacular white dress and crown, holding a wand]
Dorothy: [to Toto] Now I... I know we're not in Kansas!
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South wind
In Greek mythology, Notus was the god of the south wind and bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn.
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Notus
Notus was the Greek god of the south wind. He was associated with the desiccating hot wind of the rise of Sirius after midsummer, was thought to bring the storms of late summer and autumn, and was feared as a destroyer of crops.
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Sirius
Sirius, known in Ancient Egypt as Sopdet (Greek: Sothis), is recorded in the earliest astronomical records. During the era of the Middle Kingdom, Egyptians based their calendar on the heliacal rising of Sirius, namely the day it becomes visible just before sunrise after moving far enough away from the glare of the Sun. This occurred just before the annual flooding of the Nile and the summer solstice, after a 70-day absence from the skies. The hieroglyph for Sothis features a star and a triangle. Sothis (Sirius) was identified with the great goddess Isis, who formed a part of a trinity with her husband Osiris and their son Horus, while the 70-day period symbolised the passing of Isis and Osiris through the duat (Egyptian underworld).
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Roseville is where the fish washed up.
Ville means city or town

Rose
The ancient Romans identified the rose and its natural beauty with Venus, their goddess of sensual love. In Greek mythology, their goddess of love, Aphrodite, gave the rose its name, but their goddess of flowers, Chloris, created it. One day in the forest, Chloris found the lifeless body of a beautiful nymph. Chloris turned her into a flower. Aphrodite offered beauty to the flower; Dionysus, the god of wine, gave her a sweet scent; and Zephyr, the West Wind, blew away all the clouds so Apollo, the sun god, could shine on this rose and make it bloom.

Christians adopted the red rose as a symbol of the blood of the Christian martyrs. The white rose came to be associated with purity, specifically the virginity and innocence of the Virgin Mary. Popular literature claims that before the rose became a flower of the earth, it grew in Paradise without thorns. The thorns came after Adam and Eve were banished from Eden to remind humans of their sins and their fall from grace. The rose’s fragrance and beauty remain, supposedly to remind humans of the splendor they lost. In reference to this legend the Virgin Mary is called a “rose without thorns” because she was free from original sin.
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The rose is also a symbol of Christ who is called the Rose of Sharon.

Song of Solomon 2:1
I am the rose of Sharon,
And the lily of the valleys.
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Roseville is in Logan County - Logan means "Little Hollow"
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which is a valley like area between two mountains or hills, often with a corresponding stream of waterway running down. There may be pastures or long open spaces between the hills.
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And the main towns of this area where government etc are located is Booneville and Paris.
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Maybe just some weird coincidences.   :shock: :lol:

[willddoMJ]

100,000 fish  :shock:  heard about that but didnt really know of it

[Kim]

A mystery,It's sad tho

[angelshadow]

A mystery,It's sad tho

Very Sad  :shock:

[Kim]

Yes and a little bit scary too, not to know what causes the death of those birds and fish.

[angelshadow]

Yes and a little bit scary too, not to know what causes the death of those birds and fish.

I agree with you....very scary... :?

[Kim]

I cannot believe that so many birds and fish died because of fireworks or thunderstorms...complete 2 different things>>>birds in the air and fish in the water (duh). It was different if only birds died, but so many fish too! There is something more going on.

[angelshadow]

I cannot believe that so many birds and fish died because of fireworks or thunderstorms...complete 2 different things>>>birds in the air and fish in the water (duh). It was different if only birds died, but so many fish too! There is something more going on.

Exactly my thought!!! In the news it becomes so put, however, this cannot be thus

[hesouttamylife]

Oh hell :shock: food, water and air :? That would be enough to convince me to relocate, and rather quickly :?

[Kim]

Some say it has something to do with HAARP, what is HAARP?

[loveygood]

I saw that last night!!! I hope someone is not being careless with toxins!!! what do blackbirds do/feast on?

and they were so pretty with the red and orange splash of color