Mexico: Hundreds of migratory birds were caught falling to the ground on a security camera in Mexico’s Cuauhtémoc city. In the now-viral video, a large flock of yellow-headed blackbirds can be plummeting from the sky as some of them fly upwards after descending low with many falling dead.
The video showed a flock of yellow-headed blackbirds hitting the pavement en masse in Chihuahua, about 230 miles south of El Paso, Texas. Local media reported that the incident happened last week.
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While many of the birds that were headed south from Canada — where they had spent the winter — recovered from the fall and flew away, dozens of them were dead and did not move.
Local authorities could not immediately pinpoint a cause for the birds’ sudden death.
But a veterinarian suspected the birds either inhaled toxic fumes from a heater or might have fallen victim to nearby power lines.
