Showing posts with label Beebe. Show all posts
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Friday, January 07, 2011

The Big Picture on Wildlife Mortality Events

We Arkansans are by nature accustomed to periodic ribbing, but I was hit with both barrels when news hit last week of the New Years Eve mass death of 5,000 blackbirds in Beebe, Arkansas.  The New York Times had the best headline - For Arkansas Blackbirds, the New Year Never Came.

Thanks to The Economist for this vindication: