About 500 red-winged blackbirds dropped dead on to a stretch of road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Scientists are trying to establish if the event is linked to the one 480km (300 miles) to the north in Beebe, Arkansas.
Last week, about 83,000 dead and dying drum fish washed up along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River, west of Beebe.
Carcasses from both events are being sent to experts for tests. One theory is that the birds were spooked by New Year fireworks.
This is not the first mystery involving dead birds, in March of this year hundreds of dead starlings crash landed on a a street in Somerset.
A nearby resident said: ‘It was like something out of a horror film – like Hitchcock’s The Birds.'
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/851819-first-arkansas-now-dead-birds-fall-out-of-the-sky-in-louisiana#ixzz1AANZlLpQ
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