CNN - A huge count of dead blackbirds was discovered in Beebe, Arkansas, after the New Year celebration. The state wildlife spokeswoman reported that someone set off fireworks in a huge roost of blackbirds in Arkansas.

Approximately 5,000 birds were killed on a New Year's Eve. They were found in a square-mile place in Beebe, the central town of the Arkansas roughly 35 miles northeast of Little Rock where these birds usually migrate and rest.

Last year's blast of fireworks had caused an unhealthy environment for the birds. A lot have become disoriented and started to fly all over the place into motionless objects like buildings and trees. a discovery extracted from Ginny Porter's, spokeswoman of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, statement.

Porter believed that killing those birds was not intentional.

However, questions regarding the person's intention of setting off fireworks that had caused the death of 200 blackbirds last weekend remained.

In view of the losses in the past year, the town police officers together with the state wildlife officer patrolled the area aware of the risks that fireworks bring to the blackbirds.

Nonetheless, fireworks that went off around 7 p.m. had killed 50 blackbirds. "We don't know where or who shot them (fireworks)," said Porter.

Most of the blackbirds died five hours later at midnight and were found in a roost, residential area, or bunch of trees.

The spokeswoman claimed that a person really went into the roost and started out fireworks. But the officers weren't able to catch and didn't even recognize the person.

A game commission explained that blackbirds cannot really fly at night because of their poor night vision.

Robbie Stroud, a Beebe resident, reported to KARK, a CNN affiliate, that the latest killing of birds was disarming. It is, however, not as harsh as the incident a year ago.

"It was pretty wild. We got out and backed out of the driveway, and it was freaky, man. There were dead birds lying everywhere," said Stroud as he recalled the scene on Jan. 1 last year.