Birds fall from sky in U.S

Mystery surrounds the deaths of thousands of black birds which fell from the sky in Arkansas, America.

State wildlife officials have been going door-to-door in the town of Beebe to collect the birds after 5,000 fell dead.

Officials said the creatures began falling from the sky late on New Year’s Eve and continued into the next day.

Beebe is a a town of about 4,500 people located 30 miles northeast of the state capital, Little Rock.
“It could be weather-related or possibly stress-related,” said Keith Stephens, a spokesman for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

“There were some fireworks shot off at midnight and it is possible that the birds were on their roost and stressed so bad that it could have killed them.”

The birds have been collected from rooftops, trees and yards and will be tested at facilities in Little Rock and Madison, Wisconsin.
Stephens said hail or lightning in recent days also could have injured the birds but he had seen no physical signs of injuries in the birds so far collected.

High winds and tornadoes struck Arkansas on New Year’s Eve, with the hardest hit area more than 150 miles to the west of Beebe.

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