Fireworks blamed for deaths of 3,000 black birds

"The red-winged blackbirds rained out of the darkness onto rooftops and pavements and into fields a fireworks display held just before midnight. One struck a woman walking her dog. Another hit a police car.
Birds were "littering the streets, the yards, the driveways, everywhere," said Robby King, a county wildlife officer in Beebe, a community of 5,000 northeast of Little Rock. "It was hard to drive down the street in some places without running over them."
In all, more than 3,000 birds tumbled to the ground. Scientists said that fireworks appeared to have frightened the birds into such a frenzy that they crashed into homes, cars and each other."
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