Under Yellowstone. On August 29, 1870, a 30-year-old Army lieutenant named Gustavus Doane, part of an exploratory expedition in the Yellowstone region in the territory of Wyoming, scrambled his way to the summit of Mount Washburn above the Yellowstone River.
Looking to the south, he noticed that something was missing from a stretch of the Rocky Mountains: mountains. For miles and miles, the only elevations were in the distance, forming parentheses around a huge forested basin. Doane saw only one way to explain the void. Blackbird deaths in Arkansas investigated - Technology & Science. A worker collects dead birds from the backyard of a home in Beebe, Ark., on Jan. 2.
((Stephen B. Thornton/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Associated Press) ) The carcasses of some of the nearly 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that inexplicably fell on Beebe, Ark., on New Year's Eve night will be sent for testing to determine the cause of death. The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission says the state Livestock and Poultry Commission Lab and the National Wildlife Health Center Lab in Madison, Wis., will examine the dead birds, starting Monday. Birds fall dead in Arkansas town — again - Technology & Science.
Blackbirds have fallen dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town for the second New Year's Eve in a row.
KATV showed a radar image that it said showed a large mass over Beebe a few hours before midnight Saturday. The Little Rock television station reported that hundreds of birds had died. Hearst Taylor, an animal control worker in the Beebe, told KATV the reason for the bird deaths isn't yet known.