The cause of the sudden deadly swarm remains a mystery.
that he was almost certain this was the case, as predator birds, such as a raptor, would cause birds to form a tight swirl and drive them towards the ground. The birds stuck in the lower areas of the swarm would have crashed right into the ground, he said.
"This looks like a raptor like a peregrine or hawk has been chasing a flock, like they do with murmurating starlings, and they have crashed as the flock was forced low," he told the outlet."You can see that they act like a wave at the beginning, as if they are being flushed from above."Also last week, some people inreportedly encountered an"eerie sight" of roughly 200 starlings falling from the sky.
"It's like there were hundreds of birds in the sky and all of a sudden they just died and fell to the ground," he said."It was quite surreal last night to be honest with you - not something I have ever experienced before."200 starlings crashed into the ground . The Environment and Climate Change Canada's Wildlife Service later said that the flock had been chased by a larger bird, causing them to swarm, and that 42 of the birds had been killed as soon as they hit the ground.
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