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wanderer33:
This is bloody weird.

On New Years Eve.....

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/01/02/arkansas.falling.birds/index.html?hpt=Sbin

One type of bird and one type of fish?

Officials are investigating what may have killed some 100,000 fish in the Arkansas River in the northwestern section of the state, authorities said on Sunday.

Deceased drum fish littered 20 miles of the river near Ozark, Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told CNN.

The dead fish were first found on Thursday, and fisheries officials are conducting tests to understand what killed them.

"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," Stephens said. "If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish."

This fish mystery took place more than 125 miles from the town of Beebe, where officials are still trying to determine what caused 5,000 blackbirds to suddenly fall from the sky on New Year's Eve.

Poisoned water would not have affected just one species. Same with the birds, it wasn't hail, or lightning which is an absurd proposition. Lightning wouldn't do that.

Jerry:
Yes, very weird.

Sounds like the birds may have been victims of some kind of compression shock.

WhiteBear:
I posted this on SOTT in response to one of the articles about this phenomenon


--- Quote ---The disease vs. toxin argument regarding the deaths of the fish is explained by the fact that only Drum fish died. So, I asked myself (and Google), what was unusual, if anything, about the Drum fish.

Right at the top is this story.  _http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1839/is-the-drum-fish-the-worlds-most-useless-fish
Turns out not only are they incredibly resilient to the point that people wonder why they -won't- die, they also use sound for reproduction, with special muscles that Drum against an inflatable bladder.
"The drum has an earbone called an "otolith" which has white enameled surfaces almost like ivory. These otoliths are sometimes made into jewelry and were kept by early people as lucky, protective amulets (presumably after they ate the fish). "

Given the "blunt force trauma" of airborne birds, and the killing of fish who use sound extensively, my thoughts turn to a more mundane explanation...some sort of sonic weapon test.
--- End quote ---

It wasn't until after posting this that I realized that I had slipped back in my old "Conspiracy Theorist" mode of coming up with an explanation for something, and then digging for information that might back up the theory, instead of evaluating the existing information and -then- forming an hypothesis.

D:
My theory was that they flew into some sort of meteor blast or something similar, or a meteor blast near them like an after shock effected them.

dant:
CorEXIT anyone?

Now, MSM are saying the birds died of shock from the reveller's
fireworks as revellers allegedly saw the birds drop from the sky?

Seems fishy to me (pun intended ;) )!

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