So whatever happened with this?
As far as the dead birds. . . I don't know. That info train stopped moving when it was reported that fireworks did the killing. I use to drive around that area and went to ASU's Beebe campus. It's very rural. The Beebe/Antioch/Carlisle area is moving into Delta land, so I can't really get behind a bunch of birds getting scared from "all the fireworks" and just dying midflight. The birds had internal trauma, not external. That, apparently, shows they died mid-flight and then crashed to earth.