Forget cats and dogs, it's raining birds in Arkansas

[Lars77]

Run time: 00:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wl03DEfh9E   Posted on YouTube: January 03, 2011 By YouTube Member: Euronews Views on YouTube: 15   Posted on DU: January 03, 2011 By DU Member: Lars77 Views on DU: 742

 

[EnviroBat]

1. Very strange, very sad... n/t

[StClone]

2. Obvious poisoning

Blackbirds do not fly at night and more than likely they fell, then flopped some distance, from nighttime roosts as they succumbed to some toxin.

Typically the poison is specifically put out to kill masses of blackbirds though non-target birds will be killed. Rain on the toxin no doubt would readily make it to waterways and take fish.

Natural poisoning occurs too and there are many reports of legal and illegal bird poisoning in recent years.

[Lars77]

3. Thousands of dead fish have now turned up

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136401&catid=2

Arkansas Game & Fish is trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in Northwest Arkansas turned up dead. They were found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County.

The 20-mile stretch along the Arkansas River where an estimated 100,000 drum fish were found washed ashore and floating looks much different now.