Blackbirds are dropping out of the sky in Beebee, Ark. (5,000 of them), and now, another 500 suffered they same fate yesterday in Louisiana. Is it time to panic? Were the Mayans a year off in their 2012 prediction? OMG, run, panic, hide.
Well, maybe you should stay put. As Pres. Calvin Coolidge said, and he didn't say much, four-fifths of your problems will disappear from just sitting still. From the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission: "Results from preliminary testing released today by the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission Veterinary Diagnostic Lab show that red-winged blackbirds died from massive trauma on New Year’s Eve.
"It’s not apparent what caused the bird’s unusual behavior, although loud noises were reported shortly before the birds began to fall from the sky. Blackbirds have poor night vision and do not typically fly at night."
There, problem solved. Oh wait, no one believes any form of government these days. So it must be chemical testing by the evil wings of the secret government that runs the government. Possibly it's God's admonition to us. Maybe a cloaked UFO that the birds run afoul of in flight? Hey, the second season of V starts tonight. And it's raining red that show. Maybe this is just some over the top PR for ABC.
But incidents like this have occurred as recently as four years ago in Australia.
So, while the jury is out on what is causing birds to die en masse, it's safe to say you shouldn't run for the hills just yet. A caveat: culture throughout history have believed that birds are omens and birds falling from the sky are the worst kind. But, if you were living in 900 B.C.E., and saw 10,000 birds fall from the sky, that might just get passed down and become human myth. After all, they couldn't just log into Google and find all they needed to know, now could they?
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