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| Thousands of birds, including these red-winged blackbirds, recently dropped dead out of the sky. No one is sure of what exactly caused these mysterious deaths as of yet. |
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| This photo, taken on January 3, 2011 by the Maryland Department of the Environment, shows dead fish at Northwest Creek in Stevensville, Maryland. |
This New Year's Eve, 5,000 European starlings, red-winged blackbirds, and common grackles dropped dead out of the sky in Beebe, Arkansas. 450 dead blackbirds littered a highway in Louisiana near Baton Rouge. Just before midnight on Tuesday, an estimated 100 jackdaw birds were found dead in Falkoping, Sweden. As well as this, about 2 million fish were discovered dead in Maryland, in Chesapeake Bay. Authorities from Brazil report that several tons of what was mostly sardines also turned up dead around the Paranagua port area. There are no proven theories about what is happening to these birds and fish as of right now. Some believe that the mass death of these animals are signs of an upcoming apocalypse.
The fish deaths are most likely completely unrelated to the bird deaths. Spot fish (the type of fish shown in the image to the right) are quite susceptible to the cold, and it was recorded that mass fish deaths like this occurred in Maryland in 1976 and 1980. The explanation for the mass death of the birds, however, is not as easy to come up with.
The species of dead birds found varied from brown-headed cowbirds, red-winged blackbirds, robins, starlings, and grackles. These species often flock together in the wintertime.
The birds apparently began dropping out of the sky in Arkansas around 11 pm. They were landing everywhere. Many Arkansas residents were traumatized, frightened, and disturbed by the event.
Christy Stephens told the New York Times, ""One of [the birds] almost hit my best friend in the head. We went inside after that."
Christy Stephens told the New York Times, ""One of [the birds] almost hit my best friend in the head. We went inside after that."
Biologists found no evidence of toxins or poison gas on the birds, so that theory was pretty much ruled out. Another theory is that fireworks startled the birds, causing them to become so stressed out that they died. Although this is a possibility, 5,000 dead birds is a very large number. It is considered quite unusual for all of them to have died.
Some people are saying that the fireworks theory is just a cover-up story created by the government to conceal the real cause of death--government testing of a new weapon or some sort of device.
Several dead bird samples showed signs of blunt-force trauma. Ornithologist Karen Rowe said to CNN, "The birds obviously hit something very hard and had hemorrhages."
This has led other people to believe that the birds had flown into a UFO, and therefore UFOs were the cause.
Some people are saying that the fireworks theory is just a cover-up story created by the government to conceal the real cause of death--government testing of a new weapon or some sort of device.
Several dead bird samples showed signs of blunt-force trauma. Ornithologist Karen Rowe said to CNN, "The birds obviously hit something very hard and had hemorrhages."
This has led other people to believe that the birds had flown into a UFO, and therefore UFOs were the cause.
Many people have theorized that the birds could have flown into a storm and been pelted by hail or struck by lightning. However, this theory is very unlikely to be true due to the fact that there was no storm going on in that area at the time the birds began dying.
I will continue to update you on this story. If you want more information, however, click on the following link:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/0103/Search-for-clues-is-on-after-birds-fall-from-sky-in-Arkansas
Article Written By:
Ratt Kazamata
~Ratt
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