Unfortunate Redwing Blackbirds die in Massive Event Over Arkansas

What killed the Redwing blackbirds over Beebe, Arkansas? That is a mystery puzzling officials, scientists and the public in America and around the globe. Some fear a repetition and urge investigation in order that the cause or causes may be found.

The number of birds killed at one time is staggering. Some estimate as many as 5,000 in a three hour period. This means that many explanations can be eliminated because they are not plausible for such a large number of bird deaths in such a short period. There are suggestions of a common trauma event.

It's not unusual for birds to fly in huge flocks and it's plausible that they all flew within an airspace in which a natural event caught the birds suddenly in flight. Possibilities are temperature or electrical events, but the culprit would vanish as quickly as it appeared, so even though a storm situation is suspect, there is not firm evidence as yet. It may be possible to determine whether the event was hot or cold.

My own guess is that it was a cold event and may be associated with wind.

What do you think after reading the press?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343413/Birds-fall-sky-Blackbirds-literally-drop-dead-Arkansas.html

http://www.katv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13791490

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70534T20110106

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010502625.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/photogalleries/110103-dead-birds-fall-from-sky-arkansas-pictures/

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