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The Birds Are Dying… Again, Nothing To Do With 2012 Rapture
Remember last New Year’s when mass amounts of blackbirds dropped dead over an Arkansas town and conspiracy theorists claimed it was doomsday? Well, it’s happened again this New Year’s but it has nothing to do with the end of the world.
Thousands of blackbirds dropped dead on New Year’s Eve in Arkansas in an incident eerily similar to one that occurred at the same time a year ago.
The NY Daily News reports that thousands of blackbirds were found dead after loud fireworks sent flocks of the small birds into a panic, according to scientists. They collided with each other, as well as power lines, houses and cars and then simply fell to the ground.
Reports of the dead birds began about 7pm on New Year’s Eve and police worked with animal control workers to dispose of the bird bodies.
Last New Year’s Eve 2010, about 3,000 to 5,000 birds died from blunt trauma:
Eyewitnesses told authorities “the birds were hitting mailboxes, cars, basketball goals, houses, trees,” Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told the Daily News last January. “The trauma shows that they were in flight when they collided with something that killed them.”
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