[va-richmond-general] this is a very sad but interesting story, it will be interesting to see what happened
- From: "Kathy" <k-kreutzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:56:31 -0500
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/photogalleries/110103-dead-b
irds-fall-from-sky-arkansas-pictures/
Fallen Blackbird
Photograph by Stephen B. Thornton, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/AP
A dead bird lies on the ground in Beebe, Arkansas
<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/united-states/arkansas-guide/>
, on Sunday after being thrown off the roof of a home by a worker with
United States Environmental Services LLC.
More than 3,000 red-winged blackbirds
<http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/red-winged-blackbird>
mysteriously tumbled dead from the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve, the
Arkansas Game and Fish <http://www.agfc.com/Pages/default.aspx> Commission
told the Associated Press. (Visit
<http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/> National
Geographic's backyard birding central.)
A preliminary report-released Monday by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry
Commission-suggests the birds died of trauma of unknown cause.
"The birds obviously hit something very hard and had hemorrhages,"
game-and-fish commission bird expert Karen Rowe told CNN.
It's unknown whether the trauma occurred during contact with something in
the sky-such as lightning
<http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/lig
htning-profile/> or high-altitude hail-or when the birds hit the ground,
Rowe said.
Commission scientists began to examine the carcasses today, and final
results on the exact cause of the birds' death could be back within a week.
Published January 3, 2011
from Kathy Kreutzer, Chesterfield
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