[blueplum]

so who's right - the people who want to ban fireworks or the people who study birds? and what killed them? and why are there so many wierd things happening this year, er.. last year?

[Kevmo]

More likely they breathed in some toxic gas.

[wardaddy]

I call bullshit

I lived in Manhattan

Chinatown and Mott and Mulberry and Canal etc

Huge fireworks

Never seen one dead pigeon

[Widget Jr]

If this were true it would have been happening every Fourth of July, New Years, and several other holidays for decades all over the planet. I am getting so tired of the press treating people as if we are stupid.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fireworks all over the world were to declare war on the lockdowns.

[JoanSmith]

In general I don’t like fireworks. Freaks the crap out of sensitive dogs and vets with PTSD.

[IYAS9YAS]

And lightning and thunder doesn’t scare birds why?

[W.]

The noisy blasts from my shotguns didn’t kill the birdies, it was the lead shot. Oy!

[moovova]

Should make all of the mangy Rome cats happy.

[American in Israel]

The fireworks startle the birds into flight at night when they are blind. No instrument flight is short lived.

[Drew68]

Hundreds of birds?

There's probably millions of pigeons in Rome.