Officials are investigating why more than 1,000 birds – most of them dead – fell out of the sky in the US state of Arkansas on New Year’s Eve.
The Arkansas Fish and Game Commission (AFGC) said it began receiving reports of the falling birds at about 2330.
By midnight, more than 1,000 red-winged blackbirds had fallen in one area of the city of Beebe.
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About 65 dead birds have been sent off for scientific analysis to determine the cause of death.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12105157
Is this what a malfunction, or shift in our earth’s magnetic field, looks like?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Birds-Employ-Earth-039-s-Magnetic-Field-for-Navigation-47384.shtml