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27 sty 2011 · The official cause of death of the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds found in the town of Beebe, Arkansas on New Year’s Eve is blunt-force trauma, according to the results of three...
7 sty 2011 · But what causes dead birds to fall from the sky en masse? The Arkansas case points to two common culprits: loud noises and crashes.
Professional-grade fireworks probably caused the deaths of thousands of red-winged blackbirds in Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year’s Eve. The loud noises, combined with birds’ poor night vision and large winter gathering, likely led 4,000 to 5,000 birds to crash to their deaths.
3 sty 2011 · Residents of the small town of Beebe, northeast of Little Rock, awoke Saturday to find thousands of dead blackbirds littering a 1.5-square-mile area. The birds inexplicably dropped dead,...
The birds that died – Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, Brown-headed Cowbirds and European Starlings – are abundant species that flock together in large nighttime roosts during the winter months.
7 sty 2011 · It all started when residents of Beebe, in the US state of Arkansas, woke to find thousands of dead blackbirds strewn across roads on 1 January. Then, in Louisiana, about 500 birds - including ...
5 sty 2011 · More 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.
