Post date: Jan 02, 2011 11:10:56 PM
Wildlife officials canvas a town in Arkansas to investigate and collect thousands of dead blackbirds that fell mysteriously from the sky.
BEEBE, ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES. (JANUARY 2, 2010) NBC - State wildlife officials were going door-to door on Sunday (January 2) in the town of Beebe, Arkansas, to collect dead birds after thousands of mostly blackbirds mysteriously fell from the sky.
Workers were searching Beebe, a town of about 4,500 people located 30 miles (48.3 kilometers) northeast of the state capital, to collect what officials estimated as between 4,000 and 5,000 birds which began falling from the sky late on New Year's Eve and continued into the next day.
The birds were still collected from rooftops, trees and yards and will be sent on Monday (January 3) to testing facilities in Little Rock, Arkansas and Madison, Wisconsin.