Thousands of dead birds fall from the sky in Arkansas

The new year is off to a strange start. From Reuters:

State wildlife officials were going door-to-door on Sunday in the town of Beebe, Arkansas, to collect dead birds after thousands of mostly blackbirds mysteriously fell from the sky.

Workers were searching Beebe, a town of about 4,500 people located 30 miles northeast of the state capital, to collect what officials estimated as between 4,000 and 5,000 birds which began falling from the sky late on New Year's Eve and continued into the next day.

Officials are at a loss to explain this. You can read more here. (Credit to our friend Donna for linking us to this story!)