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Environment

5000 Birds fall out of Sky in Arkansas

Juan Cole 01/03/2011

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An environmental mystery: The blogosphere is abuzz about the mystery of thousands of birds falling out of the sky in Arkansas.

Such things happen sometimes because of atmospheric events, lightning storms, etc. But Arkansas weather officials suspect this event may derive from a big fireworks spectacle in a rural area where the birds were concentrated and nesting, shocking them out of their nests. (I’m not a physical scientist, but this idea makes no sense to me.)

AP has more, including the observation that the birds were not poisoned because other animals ate them with no ill effects.

CNN has video.

Filed Under: Environment

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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