The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission says a final round of tests has shown the cause of death for nearly 5,000 black birds in Beebe over New Year’s Eve was blunt force trauma. Other tests had previously shown the same. A mystery still surrounds the death of 83,000 freshwater drum that died in the Arkansas River, along with around 1,000 other fish. Release on the jump.

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