Posted on 02/02/2018 5:18:55 AM PST by BenLurkin
More than 200 birds fell from the sky onto a Draper street Monday, leading residents to wonder what caused this mass avian accident.
“It’s one of the rarest things I’ve ever heard of,” said Sergeant Chad Carpenter with the Draper City Police Department.
“As I was driving, these birds were just falling out of the sky,” said Draper resident, Lacey Brown as she was driving down the street on 300 East in Draper.
“They were all on the ground right around here and on the roadway,” Brown said, “They were just falling out of the sky like leaves,” she added.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox13now.com ...
Um ... where is Draper?
clues for the FReepers?
Any indication of the type of bird?
Draper, Utah
Utah ?
Starlings
“When does a bird sing?”
When does a bird NOT sing?
Perhaps they wanted to be close to you, Elle.
It’s right at the beginning of the article, if you click the link. I don’t know why it was redacted here.
It happens...
Possible Causes of Bird Falling From Sky
Bird Biology
Bird’s unique biology allows them to fly, but also can cause them to fall. For instance if bird feathers become soaked in many cases they cannot maintain flight and will actually fall very quickly. This may be the case when large number of birds are found dead after a sever storm. Birds also fly between different air currents; they can quickly become frozen and unable to maintain flight. As is true with any creature there can also be natural causes; it is not uncommon for birds to experience health problems midair that result in death. Some scientists speculate the presence of an avian disease or disorder that causes birds to fall from the sky.
A couple of years ago, on the Massachusetts Turnpike near Boston, they were finding large numbers of dead crows by the side of the road, which at the time, made them very concerned about Avian Flu.
The tests came back negative, so they were really puzzled, trying to figure out why all these dead crows were appearing on the side of this very busy highway. They spent something like $100K to bring in some bird specialists to study the issue (which made me crazy-who spends that kind of money on a damned bird study!) and when they did autopsies on the carcasses, they found a very curious thing: crows don’t normally get hit by cars, but they found that all of them had evidence of impact trauma and automobile paint on them.
So they spent several days observing crows in the area, and they figured out what it was. They observed that crows feeding on carrion in the road depend on other crows to stand watch off to the side and sound an alarm when a vehicle approaches.
Time after time, when a sedan approached, the crow on the side not eating would call out with a loud “Caaaah!” and the bird in the road would fly out of the way. But the eighteen wheelers would careen right into the feeding crow with no warning, and kill it. Apparently, crows in Boston knew how to say “Caaaah!” but couldn’t figure out how to say “Truck!”
(ducks)
They were drunk...no, I’m not kidding.
“With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
(Les Nessman, WKRP)
My first thoughts were a pocket of air much colder than the ambient temperature. Cold waves running along the ground have been known to kill herds of cows.
Bird Flew?...................
The clearly false reasons we get for these events which have become surprisingly common suggest to me that somebody knows. Lets pretend that we are dumb enough to believe that starlings fly high enough to freeze en masse, how would that explain the flocks that fall cooked? Is it some type of reverse physics like when blizzards are caused by global warming? What about the flocks that fall with shattered organs? Not a jet in sight, certainly none skipping around at rooftop elevation...must be avian ebola or something. Then again, maybe its caused by Venus reflecting off a weather ballon in a pocket of swampgas.
Wasn’t Les Nessman, was the Big Guy......................
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