Beebe, Arkansas , wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than a 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town .
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commissioner said Saturday that it began receiving reports about dead birds about 11:30p.m. the previous night . The birds fell over a 1 mile area of Beebe ,Arkansas and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area .
Commissioner ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed physical trauma , and she speculated that "the flock could have been hit by lighting or high-altitude haik .
The Commissioner said that the New Year's Eve revelers shooting off fireworks in the area could have startled the birds from their roost and caused then to die from stress .
Robby King , a wildlife officer for the agency , collected about 65 dead birds , which will be sent to the state Livestock and Poultry commission Lab and the National Wildlife Health Center lab in Madison , Wisconsin.
Rowe said that similar events have occured elsewhere and that test results "usually were inconclusive." She said she doubted the birds were poisoned .
Just a thought :Here's hoping it was a freak of nature and nature causes .
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