What’s Up Arkansas?

My husband told me about the recent scary animal events in Arkansas.  Gyp Taylor talks about it here,

5,000 birds fall dead in the sky on New Year’s Eve, and thousands of fish are found dead as well. Just reported this morning, were about 500 dead birds in Louisiana (neighboring state to Arkansas). I thought it was strange enough that this occured in the first place, but the fact that there’s still no GOOD explanation for what happened is intriguing.

What could cause something like this?  It has weirded me out.

Photo by William Andrus via flickr creative commons.