Chilling video shows flock of birds suddenly plunged to the ground [WATCH]
A flock of migratory birds were seen falling to the ground in a CCTV footage, the incident is said to have taken place in Mexico’s Cuauhtémoc city.
In the viral video, a massive flock of birds can be seen plunging from the sky as some of them fly upwards after coming down low with many falling dead.
A local news paper in Mexico reported that many locals noticed many yellow-headed birds lying dead on roads and sidewalks of Cuauhtémoc on February 7, 2022.
The strange death of the birds that flies to Mexico around this time of the year from Canada has prompted many speculation. The El Heraldo de Chihuahua reported citing a veterinarian the deaths could have been due to sudden electrocution or toxic air pollution.
Here's the video:
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
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Security footage shows a flock of yellow-headed blackbirds drop dead in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua pic.twitter.com/mR4Zhh979K
On social media, a lot of people are holding 5G technology responsible—a theory not varified by proof. According to the Guardian, the cause can be an attack by a predatory bird that led the entire flock to crash.
According to Dr Richard Broughton, an ecologist with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, “This looks like a raptor-like a peregrine or hawk has been chasing a flock as they do with murmurating starlings, and they have crashed as the flock was forced low. You can see that they act as a wave at the beginning as if they are being flushed from above.”
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First published: 16 February 2022, 12:31 IST