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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2000-birds-fall-dead-from-the-sky.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A worker with United States Environmental Services removes a dead bird from a home in Beebe, Arkansas (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-2000-birds-fall-dead-from-the-sky.jpg" alt="A worker with United States Environmental Services removes a dead bird from a home in Beebe, Arkansas (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Environmental service workers in the US have been picking up the carcasses of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town.</p>
<p>The birds had fallen on Friday night over a one-mile area of Beebe, 40 miles from Little Rock, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area.</p>
<p>The workers from US Environmental Services started the clean-up on Saturday, and confirmed the last dead bird was removed at 11am on Sunday morning.</p>
<p>Beebe mayor Mike Robertson said workers wore protective suits for the removal as a matter of routine and not out of fear that the birds might be contaminated.</p>
<p>He said speculation on the cause of the birds&#8217; deaths is not focusing on disease or poisoning.</p>
<p>Several hundred thousand red-winged blackbirds have used a wooded area in the town as a roost for the past several years, he said. The mayor and other officials went to the roost area over the weekend and found no dead birds on the ground.</p>
<p>&#8220;That pretty much rules out an illness&#8221; or poisoning, the mayor said.</p>
<p>Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed signs of physical trauma, and speculated that &#8220;the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail&#8221;.</p>
<p>The commission said that New Year&#8217;s Eve revellers launching fireworks could have startled the birds from their roost and caused them to die from stress.</p>
<p>Robby King, a wildlife officer for the commission, collected about 65 dead birds, which will be sent for testing to the state Livestock and Poultry Commission lab and the National Wildlife Health Centre.</p>
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