Cats! Lol, that is really funny. Do you think the cats had machine guns to kill so many? Lol
I dunno, cats are pretty agile if they are feline energetic.
Cats! Lol, that is really funny. Do you think the cats had machine guns to kill so many? Lol
Maybe it is related to the same fate that some Crows have befallen......
The scientific conclusion was that while all the lookout crows could say "Cah", none could say "Truck."
Heard about this on my local news earlier. Apparently no dead birds could be seen in the fields either side of the road, only on the road and hedges that line the road.
Toxicology results should be interesting, the only thing I can think of is that something very nasty was released into the air along that road that instantly killed anything that flew through it.
Cats! Lol, that is really funny. Do you think the cats had machine guns to kill so many? Lol
Predators would have very quickly harvested the dead birds that fell away from the road. Most animals, including predators, actually try to avoid spending too much time on roads, especially at busy times, because they recognise that they are dangerous places to be.
(One of the problems with moving the clocks forwards/back is that you get a lot of extra roadkill because drivers change their timings and quiet crossing times suddenly become busy)
Predators, and indeed scavengers which is what feed on carrion (animals that were killed by something else) wouldn't have worked that quickly and cleanly.
How quick are we talking about?
The article doesn't give time of day or how long after the event the surrounding fields were inspected.
I wouldn't expectfooddead birds to hang around for long in a field in the middle of the country. (Especially if it was twilight at either end of the day)They only last a couple of hours in my suburban back garden.
Back to cause, these things are a bit of a mystery but some sort of flocking-error mass-air-collision or maybe a lighting strike (A strike through the middle of a flock could stun birds without burning or otherwise harming them in any way, if not dead already, hitting the ground at flight speed would finish them off)
Bird strike on an aircraft most likely, happens a lot more often than you would think especially during migration.