A flock of birds suddenly fell from the sky, and over a hundred of them dropped dead on the streets in Mexico.
Álvaro Obregón section of Cuauhtémoc in northern Mexico woke up to a horrible sight. In the early hours of the day, a flock of birds suddenly fell from the sky, and over a hundred of them dropped dead on the streets, aThe victims in this mysterious incident were the yellow-headed blackbirds, which belong to the Xanthocephalus species. Native to northern America and Canada, these birds migrate to the southwestern parts of the continent during winters.
A local veterinarian who visited the site after a request from the police attributed the bird deaths to inhalation of toxic smoke, possibly from a nearby heater, while media reports suggested that the birds were possibly victims of air pollution due to heaters, agrochemicals or they may have beenAnd a video captured by a security camera is the only evidence of the incident. told The Guardian
. Although no such bird is seen in the video, Dr. Richard Broughton, an ecologist with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is certain that a predatory bird was responsible for pushing the flock of birds towards the ground. As seen in the video above, the birds descend from the sky as a unit, a phenomenon called"murmuration", often seen in starlings. Broughton is confident that the flock reacted to the predator in this fashion but was forced too close to the ground where some of them crashed, and never was able to recover. Even after the flock moved away, many birds can be seen taking to the skies from the ground. Dr. Alexander Lees from Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K.
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