Mystery as 'hundreds' of birds found dead in road

[chaparral]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...found-dead-in-road/ar-AAK1M1K?ocid=spartandhp

Do you Guys have any ideas what could have caused this ?

 

[chaparral]

but my guess would be collisions when they do that swarming thing.

I just been googling and it seems this is what happens

Quotes here taken from different stories

But a statement from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Wildlife Service says the flock of birds was being chased by a much larger bird just before the starlings hit the ground.

The service says the cloud of birds swooped toward the ground and then pulled back up but the tail end of the swarm didn’t and about 200 birds hit the ground, killing 42 starlings on impact.

A veterinarian pathologist with the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture conducted a necropsy and found the cause of death was a chest injury and there was no evidence of underlying infectious disease or intoxication.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/09...irds-plummeting-to-death-from-the-sky-in-b-c/

"When attacked, starlings bump into each other and if one starling hits an obstacle, many others will follow behind and meet the same fate."

https://www.sott.net/article/376240-The-riddle-of-hundreds-of-starlings-falling-from-the-sky-in-Rome

 

[chaparral]

Do you think the cats had machine guns to kill so many? Lol