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Omens Of The Apocalypse

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  • Thousands of blackbirds return to their roosting site in Beebe.
  • Dr. David Green conducts a necropsy on a blackbird from Beebe.
  • MIT researcher Joshua Tenenbaum holds a Penrose triangle at an off-angle, breaking the illusion of a 3D triangle.
  • Biologist Kees Moeliker and his famous dead duck. Moeliker is an expert on strange animal demises.
  • X-rays show four dead blackbirds from Beebe, Arkansas. The cause of the deaths was a mystery to investigators for a long time. It is pieced together though later that the cause of death was unusually loud fireworks combined with favorable sound conduction and a high number of birds wintering in Beebe. The distress calls of a few blackbirds may have scared much of the roost into the air in a snowball effect.
  • The film crew spots a single blackbird flying through a spotlight mounted by a cherry picker.
  • Orinthologist Kevin McGowan from Cornell University talks about the blackbirds of Beebe, Arkansas. Bird experts have been trying to piece together the cause of death of hundreds of blackbirds in Arkansas.
  • Biologist Frank Leone holds a dead drum fish while in a boat in the Ozark Lock and Dam.

  • Blackbirds Return

    Photograph by NGT

    Thousands of blackbirds return to their roosting site in Beebe.

  • Necropsy

    Photograph by NGT

    Dr. David Green conducts a necropsy on a blackbird from Beebe.

  • Joshua Tenenbaum

    Photograph by NGT

    MIT researcher Joshua Tenenbaum holds a Penrose triangle at an off-angle, breaking the illusion of a 3D triangle. 

  • Famous Dead Duck

    Photograph by NGT

    Biologist Kees Moeliker and his famous dead duck.  Moeliker is an expert on strange animal demises.

  • Mystery Solved?

    Photograph by NGT

    X-rays show four dead blackbirds from Beebe, Arkansas.  The cause of the deaths was a mystery to investigators for a long time.  It is pieced together though later that the cause of death was unusually loud fireworks combined with favorable sound conduction and a high number of birds wintering in Beebe.  The distress calls of a few blackbirds may have scared much of the roost into the air in a snowball effect.

  • Blackbird in the Sky

    Photograph by NGT

    The film crew spots a single blackbird flying through a spotlight mounted by a cherry picker.

  • Piecing Together Blackbird Deaths

    Photograph by NGT

    Orinthologist Kevin McGowan from Cornell University talks about the blackbirds of Beebe, Arkansas.  Bird experts have been trying to piece together the cause of death of hundreds of blackbirds in Arkansas.

  • Ozark Lock Fish Dead

    Photograph by NGT

    Biologist Frank Leone holds a dead drum fish while in a boat in the Ozark Lock and Dam.

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