Caught on Camera: Hundreds of Dead Birds Fall From the Sky in Mexico

In a peculiar surveillance video, a large cluster of birds were seen unexpectedly dropping dead and falling out of the sky in Mexico's Cuauhtémoc downtown area.

A sizable cluster of yellow-headed starlings can be seen tumbling from the air in the viral clip, with several flying upwards after plunging as many collapse.

Flight of Birds Falling From The Sky in Mexico

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GLASTONBURY, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 25: A flock of starlings fly in the sky as the daylight fades on the Somerset Levels on November 25 2008 in Somerset, England. The huge gatherings best seen at dusk and biggest in winter, have been boosted by the recent arrival of thousands of birds coming to Britain's milder winter climate to escape the harsh cold of the European continent, especially from Scandinavia. The birds can feed up to 20 miles from their winter roost but return each evening to give safety in numbers, information exchange (if some come back from a good feeding area others may learn of it) and warmth at night through roosting together.

According to Indian Express, numerous yellow-headed starlings were discovered unconscious on the streets and pavements of Cuauhtémoc on Monday, February 7, 2022.

In the clip, the species have seemed to collapse back to the ground momentarily and seamlessly, with much flying away afterwards whereas others stayed on the surface.

Authorities received information at about 8.20 A.M. of mounds of pigeons thrown over the pavements. The unexpected mortality of wild birds that come to Mexico from Canada during this moment of season has sparked considerable debate.

Furthermore, a veterinarian claimed that the incidents could have been prompted by unexpected electric shocks or elevated amounts of industrial pollution.

It is also feasible that they had positioned on a transmission line throughout an overabundance. While the video is irrefutably disturbing, there have been frequent intelligences of alike occurrences in few months. Some individuals on digital network are criticizing 5G innovation, which is not substantiated by evidence.

As per the experts, the reason might be a dangerous pigeon assault that caused the entire colony to plummet to the floor. While an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Dr Richard Broughton informed the Guardian that the incident seems like a raptor-like a falcon or eagle has been following a group like they do with murmuration blackbirds, and they have collided as the flight was driven down.

As citizens can observe how birds behave like a surge at first, as if they are being discharged from the sky.

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Reason Behind The Falling of Pigeons From The Sky

On Thursday, the birds of prey were discovered near Waterston and Hazelbeach in Pembrokeshire.

According to Pembrokeshire Herald publisher Tom Sinclair, the pigeons appeared to be lifeless prior to getting struck the surface. He stated, as per the BBC, that: "There were at least 50 pigeons on the highway, and you can also notice them all yapping and getting out of control in the shrubbery.

Tom Sinclair also explained how individuals in the first signal did inform him that the local authority accumulated 10 bin liners, believing that hundreds of birds actually died.

"I got there at 11.30 p.m., and they were still falling out of the horizon, as though lifeless even they reached the bottom," says Sinclair. It is unknown what precipitated the widespread extinction of the yellow-headed starlings in Mexico.

According to the RSPCA, their nighttime perch might be disrupted, leading them to get disoriented and fall onto the pavement. This explanation contradicts Tom's report of the lifeless pigeons prior collapsing.

Experts have speculated if the birds were drugged, or if they were migrating pigeons and it was absolutely freezing, and they chilled and perished. While Pembrokeshire County Council spokeswoman stated in a statement that a security personnel visited the spot and over 200 blackbirds were discovered lifeless on the pavement.

The council have already cleaned up the area and eliminated the birds, however, there is still no conclusive evidence as to what caused these fatalities.

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