Mysterious Happenings

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If you haven't already heard, on New Years Eve 3000 Red-Winged Blackbirds fell out of the sky in a small town in Arkansas.
No one, not even experts are sure why or how the birds died.
There are many theories swirling around, being fireworks, toxic poisons, sonic booms, freak weather, aliens, even precursors to 2012.
I'm stumped. I've considered all these explanations and dismissed them (mostly).
I think it's odd that only red-winged blackbirds fell.
More reports recently came in of the same phenomenom in Louisiana, with accounts of 500 red-winged blackbirds dead.
There have also been reports in Kentucky.
Carcases litter the road.
So what do you think caused it? And why?



I might add that the day before, only 125 miles away, eighty to one hundred thousand dead fish were found washed up on the shores of the Arkansas river.
Most of these fish were Drum fish, so many think it could be a disease only afflicting one species. But.. not all of the fish were Drum fish.

Drum fish are bottom feeders, if you were interested. They eat smaller fish, mollusks, and insects.

Different scientists say different things.
Some say it couldn't be pollutants, some say the events are totally unrelated.
What do you think?

Bird Death Links:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-sent-testing/

http://planetsave.com/2011/01/04/ove...y-in-arkansas/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...010503976.html

Fish Death Links:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40887450...s-environment/

Comments on both:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...aths-louisiana

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...ratching-heads