Bad news for us, or just for birds?
Friday, January 7, 2011 - 23:30
in Biology & Nature
The mysterious appearance of dead flocks in Arkansas, Louisiana and elsewhere has many wondering what's going on. The Times talks to a wildlife expert.Roughly 5,000 dead and dying blackbirds fell from the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve. That mysterious event was followed by the appearance of about 500 dead birds along a Louisiana highway and additional bird-falls in Kentucky, Sweden and Italy. The unusual series of macabre avian incidents has many people wondering: Is there something in the air, or is this nothing to get our feathers ruffled over?