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Thousands of birds fall from the sky in Arkansas

The Giant Noodle

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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.
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This is kind of creepy.. It reminds of the when it rained fish in the UK.

I am really curious to know what caused this...
 
Wow, that's weird. I hope they figure out the cause.
 
AGFC ornithologist Karen Rowe said that strange events similar to this one have occurred a number of times across the globe. "Test results usually were inconclusive, but the birds showed physical trauma and that the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail," Rowe said.

Another scenario may have been that New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area may have startled the birds from their roost. The birds may have died from stress.
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Sounds pretty plausible.
 
It was chili night at the Jones's house...
 
They were shooting a sequel to "Day After Tomorrow."
 
apdst said:
It was global warming. Time to regulate...something.
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why must you make everything political? 1000's of birds dropping out of the sky and you take a jab at liberals?!?! Tell ya what.... when someone dies of cancer or 1000s of fish wash up dead on the banks of a river I'll blame conservatives. ;)
 
The Giant Noodle said:
why must you make everything political? 1000's of birds dropping out of the sky and you take a jab at liberals?!?! Tell ya what.... when someone dies of cancer or 1000s of fish wash up dead on the banks of a river I'll blame conservatives. ;)
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It is due to a condition called Republican Tourettes.

You may remember when NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani suffered from it. Whenever he was asked a question no matter what the subject he would blurt out 9-11.
 
The Giant Noodle said:
why must you make everything political? 1000's of birds dropping out of the sky and you take a jab at liberals?!?! Tell ya what.... when someone dies of cancer or 1000s of fish wash up dead on the banks of a river I'll blame conservatives. ;)
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Might want to read this...

Arkansas seems to be having major problems...birds, fish, and tornado's? yeesh!
 
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The Giant Noodle said:
why must you make everything political? 1000's of birds dropping out of the sky and you take a jab at liberals?!?! Tell ya what.... when someone dies of cancer or 1000s of fish wash up dead on the banks of a river I'll blame conservatives. ;)
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Your own article suggested that it was stress caused from fireworks.
 
Crosscheck said:
It is due to a condition called Republican Tourettes.

You may remember when NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani suffered from it. Whenever he was asked a question no matter what the subject he would blurt out 9-11.
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And, when the first person that mentioned global warming, or some other man made occurance, you would have been on that band wagon, jumping up-n-down in agreement. Then, gone around tirading about how Righties hate the environment.
 
apdst said:
And, when the first person that mentioned global warming, or some other man made occurance, you would have been on that band wagon, jumping up-n-down in agreement. Then, gone around tirading about how Righties hate the environment.
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Wrong, Tourette's syndrome does not give you any mind reading powers.

If I woke up and found a 1000 birds dead around my property I would probably have a curiosity what was killing them. I guess in your case you wouldn't even pay it a second notice.
 
apdst said:
Your own article suggested that it was stress caused from fireworks.
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They suggested that it might be possible. Also, how are fireworks on NYE political, exactly?

apdst said:
And, when the first person that mentioned global warming, or some other man made occurance, you would have been on that band wagon, jumping up-n-down in agreement. Then, gone around tirading about how Righties hate the environment.
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You realize that you're the only one who has mentioned it, right?

Sad part is, a year from now you'll say "Hey, remember when liberals thought that flock of birds was killed by global warming?"
 
That happened not too far from where I live (very close, in fact).

New Years eve is like the 4th of July around here - it being mid-winter the bird flocks nestle throughout the area - they come through to roost and look like ribbons in the sky when they take flight - it's kind of neat. A single flock can take 30 minutes to fly by - it's normal for this area. . . and We're on edge of population and kind of swampy - woods and farmland.

So if anything tragic's going to happen it's the ideal location for fireworks to cause an issue.

Either that or toxic chemicals were burned off in someone's backyard fire-pit. Bonfires for pleasure and practical purposes are common, as well - all it would take is some toxic junk being burned off, some birds breathing it in - and then dead.

In fact - this 2nd thought seems far more likely. We are on the edge of nowhere - there's a vast area of sparsely populated farmland and woodland where people do exactly that as a means of burning off all their trash and so on - extremely common.

Oh - and there are few liberals in this area ;)
 
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That happened not too far from where I live (very close, in fact).

New Years eve is like the 4th of July around here - it being mid-winter the bird flocks nestle throughout the area - they come through to roost and look like ribbons in the sky when they take flight - it's kind of neat. A single flock can take 30 minutes to fly by - it's normal for this area. . . and We're on edge of population and kind of swampy - woods and farmland.

So if anything tragic's going to happen it's the ideal location for fireworks to cause an issue.

Either that or toxic chemicals were burned off in someone's backyard fire-pit. Bonfires for pleasure and practical purposes are common, as well - all it would take is some toxic junk being burned off, some birds breathing it in - and then dead.

Oh - and there are few liberals in this area ;)
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I was wondering when somebody from Arkansas would comment... :)

But what about the fish? Toxic runoff into the stream perhaps?
 
SheWolf said:
I was wondering when somebody from Arkansas would comment... :)

But what about the fish? Toxic runoff into the stream perhaps?
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Yeah - about the fish, most likely it's that. Wouldn't be surprised. They're less than concerned in this state - very relaxed laws and even more relaxed enforcement of the ones on the books.

There's an area in Little Rock where i use to live that had 2 creeks running through it and for about 2 acres, behind a grouping of old factories, everything was dead - like a creepy horror flick - because of toxic dumping and sluff.

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I doubt it was fireworks...
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A redneck armed with a truckload of fireworks - I'd believe it.

But not from a firework hitting them - more likely from the chemicals that are produced when you ignite them. They have an incredible reaction time and are quite small. They also fly high and, unlike starlings, they don't tightly pack their selves in.

But I still bet it's a toxic-burn that's the culprit. They normally don't just die in large groups like that - and they're common to this area - come around year after year. If fireworks were more likely at fault then it would be more common.
 
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apdst said:
And, when the first person that mentioned global warming, or some other man made occurance, you would have been on that band wagon, jumping up-n-down in agreement. Then, gone around tirading about how Righties hate the environment.
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Thats why the fish washed up on shore. :2razz: OK..... conservatives generally believe in a book where there is no evidence of what happened IN the book, yet they will defend it like its fact. But a company dumps pollution that builds up CO2 in a lake.... fish die, yet they dont believe its the pollution in the lake.

Seriously though I dont feel the earth warming is 100% caused by humans. I havent seen anything that really DOES show the human impact. BUUUT.... what I do see are common sense things. Smog, water table pollution, oil dumped into the environment were it shouldnt be dumped, air pollution, pesticides making well water undrinkable, animals being affected in their reproduction..... ETC

In other words global warming is just a hot-button issue that takes FAR to much stage real estate from other issues we DO know about. Now, to unregulate companies and individuals from poluting is to turn the US into another China. Cheap products at the HUGE expense of destroying your land and at the expense of peoples health.

What Im trying to say is regulation is needed regarding keeping the environment clean! If we dont people get health problems. Health problems cost money. Cleaning our water and our land costs money. Long term the US will be much worse off by not regulating. But Conserva-people just like to see money in their pockets NOW.
 
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