Birds falling from the sky

A friend of mine informed me that birds have been falling from the sky, and that the world was going to end.
She asked, "Mr.B why are the birds falling from the sky." Mr.B thought this was a strange question, until she explained that around 1,000 birds were falling from the sky in Arkansas, According to Aol News, the death of the birds could have been caused from fire works that stress the birds out and cause them to die.

I have a couple of theories, mostly provided by Mr.B and my friend.

1. The world is ending. Maybe there is a slow moving gas that is creeping in from the sky, and will eventually kill all living things, those birds were flying a little too high, and ran into the destructive cloud.

2. The government is testing small scale bombs, and the birds happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

3. Because the birds are from America it would be reasonable to assume that they were overweight and all died from heart disease at the same time. Or diabetes that works too.

4. A homeless guy found a genie with a sense of humor. The homeless guy asked for food, and the genie made birds fall from the sky. Dig in homeless guy.

5. A homeless guy found a grumpy genie. The homeless guy wanted a pet bird for company. The genie said, "Here, take some dead birds" and bombarded the homeless man with birds.

6. A five year old with rich parents wanted to fly. So his parents hired 12 people to catch 1,000 birds and tie them together. The very plump five year old rode around on these birds for 15 minutes before losing interest. The bird were released and later died from exhaustion.

7. The birds partied too hard on New Year's Eve.

8. The were electrocuted when sitting on the power lines.

9. They were hit by a hot air ballon

10. Flew too close to the sun, they received a nasty case of sun burn, then skin cancer, then died from cancer.