Ok, I live in Arkansas and I have heard a lot of rumors and speculation on what has happened to the birds. So bare with me, this is all word of mouth type stuff, it may or may not be true, but if it is, I am scared to say the least.
So apparently, during the Iraq was we did find some chemical weapons, ones such as phosgene. They were brought to Pine Bluff, AR to be stored. Recently central/south AR has been experiencing many earthquakes. This is said to be a result of the government trying to bury the chemical.
On New Years Eve Night, a plane was supposedly transporting the chemicals to Afghanistan from Pine Bluff. That plane happened to fly over Bebe, AR, and its been rumored that their was some sort of accident and some of the phosgene was released, resulting in the death of the birds. I've heard it has been linked to the death of the fish in AR too. Not sure though. John Wheeler supposedly knew of all this and was going to blow the whistle on it all. We see what happened to him.
But what is really scary is a good friend of mine died today from a respiratory infection. Whats strange is he was fine yesterday and then within hours was hospitalized and died. He has also just traveled through south/central AR. Phosgene is a chemical agent that affects the respiratory system.

Well, if my eyes don't deceive me, that's a flock of birds. Do I win something?

Originally posted by LooseLipsSinkShips
Even if it is a man made influence, the strong will survive. And they will adapt. Thus, is nature.

Well...sort of.

It's only my opinion BUT,
At this point humans and their evolution have certainly reached a unique place. Natural selection, aka "the strong will survive", is not the case with humans. We have surpassed our weakness to nature's influence to a point where the weak survive as well, so to speak.
We also have this effect on nature, to a certain extent. We can, and do, kill off strong creatures of nature by our artificial manipulations.

So at this point in time and human civilisation, the whole Darwinian natural selection thing is off the tracks and in the past.
I must respectfully disagree.

On the contrary: natural selection has never been as impressive, with mighty Man as its flaming sword.

I find these posts and the topic very interesting. Yes, birds don't simply fall without great reason. It was covered by the media briefly though other news topics were almost exaggerated or more focussed. A distraction?

IT's very odd it's not world breaking news. It's being covered up. Fireworks? Really? What kind of firework does that? The first one would have given a sound that kept birds away. Ever been to a firework display and see a flock of birds suddenly appear and then drop dead? Probably not. Sad fact is that the firework suggestion could be tested by anyone and disproved. Light a firework today and see how many birds fall. Probably not one. And the sudden Budapest cover-up. It's a cover-up, sorry, what else to call something that is there and then suddenly changed and unavailable? I feel insulted really......as if I am that ignorant to believe and accept that fireworks made birds fall from the sky....and I heard nothing of filing insurance claims because birds decided to run/fall/fly into houses.

Facts: A firework would hurt a bird, though hundreds? And hundreds without one wound?

No one explained the firework display as being massive. Was it bigger than the world's largest firework display? Birds fly at varying altitudes, and fireworks explode at an estimated altitude. For each bird to become that confused and die because of fireworks.....where are the birds with wounds? I saw the birds in photos and on television. They were perfect and pretty (other than dead) and not a one looked as if a pigeon taking anti-acids. No injuries. They looked like laying down sleeping birds. It looks like a giant shock, perhaps a shock air wave of some sort, not a firework. A chemical? Couldn't that be dedected through an autopsy?

Notice how many birds died....notice no one is stating how many fireworks were lit and successfully went up, and upon the first few why didn't anyone stop when the birds fell....how can you set off many fireworks and then hundreds of birds fall and from a radius that large (though small it remains large enough to not have been a firework display). Who sets off fireworks with a flock of hundreds of birds? No one is stating that the individuals should be charged for the mass killing of birds, and of course not....it wouldn't make it to the courts, just like the truth won't by the individuals assuring the truth is not provided.

Thanks this is great! I will definitely read it. Thanks for the post.

I'm quite glad you posted and I think what you state is the most reasonable truth....though it is my opinion. I can state that your post is the only one that makes sense when comparing to the media's coverage...and no, what happened to the gentleman that was going to blow the whistle on this?

I think this phenomenon has been encountered before during WW2 (not foo fighters!)

I read somewhere this RAF squadron being alerted by ground control of a very large incoming, head-on radar signature, suspected to be either a very large flock of birds or worse, enemy fighter/bomber formations.

As the radar signature 'collided' with the RAF squadron, the pilots saw nothing! Whatever that came up on radar was invisible and flew right through their planes!

Much later, the radar signature was suspected to be a flock of invisible creatures that was first detected and caught on IR film by Wilhelm Reich - the orgone expert.

This "plume" in some of the images and videos that have been mentioned is likely a manifestation of electric discharge, a charged sheath vortex. All of Earth's weather is driven by electric currents, this was probably no exception. It looks like a cyclonic wind.