Talked to a friend of mine who works near downtown and he had to go up to 15th and then down Red River to get from his office on W 10th to the Federal Court House.
He says the popular theory going around the Court House is: a wedding reception took place at the Driskell or some other location downtown, the guest threw rice, the birds ate the rice and then drank water, the birds then croak!
Those birds joined a suicide cult a few years back
You're aware, that this is an urban legend...right?
Birds will not explode or croak or anything from eating raw rice...
Regards,
Col Sanders