Hundreds of dead stinkers



Vaguely remember some natural history programme mentiong about Robins dying en masse somewhere in Norfolk a few years ago. Turned out they'd all had some sort of deadly disease which only affected Robins.
 
Flared Hicks said:
Do they know what was the cause then?
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Surely it's going to be something they've eaten on the road. They all feed en masse, flying round together looking for a tasty treat. About 30 of them landed on a tree next door a month back, ate all the berries then flew off together. So a mass poison seems most likely
 
Yesterday police asked if anyone with any theories could get in touch :eek: they also revealed it may have happened before on a smaller scale???
 
I'm sure I read somewhere that this sort of thing has a lot to do with the weather, or I should say electricity that happen naturally in the atmosphere/sky
 
Curlyteeth said:
Err bollocks. I live on Anglesey. We get loads of starling murmurations and people watch them. Numerous people had seen them flying not long before they went down.
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A spokesperson for APHA said: "Preliminary findings indicate death due to trauma and internal bleeding in many of the birds examined so far due to impact with the ground.
 

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