Bird Testing?: Birds Now Falling out of the Sky in Both Arkansas and Louisiana

The strange phenomenon of birds falling from the sky has spread from Arkansas to neighboring Louisiana. An estimated 5000 birds fell from the skies over Beebe, Arkansas, and now a Louisiana is seeing a similar and strange site.

Channel Two News in Louisiana is now reporting hundreds of birds along roadways are dead or dying in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. They are the same types of birds that have died in Arkansas, the red-winged black birds.

News Channel Two reports:

Hundreds of dead and dying birds littered a quarter-mile stretch of highway in Pointe Coupee Parish on Monday as motorists drove over and around them.

State biologists are trying to determine what led to the deaths of the estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings on La. 1 just down the road from Pointe Coupee Central High School.

The discovery of the dead birds — some of which were lying face down, clumped in groups, while others were face up with their wings outstretched and rigid legs pointing upward — comes just three days after more than 3,000 blackbirds rained down from the sky in Beebe, Ark.

Necropsies performed Monday on the birds in Arkansas showed the birds suffered internal injuries that formed blood clots leading to their deaths, The Associated Press reported.

In Louisiana, biologists with the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spent part of the day Monday scooping up some of the birds in Pointe Coupee Parish to be sent for testing at labs in Georgia and Wisconsin.