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Thousands Of Birds Drop Out Of The Sky In England
- Fishermen report birds falling from the sky
- Birds are exhausted, disoriented, thousands drown
- “Just saw dead songbirds in the water: it was a harrowing sight”
EXHAUSTED and disoriented garden birds are dropping from the sky into the sea off England’s south coast.
Fishermen have reported seeing hundreds of common migratory birds plunging to the deaths in the past week.
“While fishing about 10 miles south of Portsmouth, we witnessed thousands of garden birds disorientated, land on the sea and most drowning,” one boat skipper told Britain’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
“Species included goldcrests, robins, thrushes and blackbirds. The sky was thick with garden birds. I estimate I saw 500 birds die and that was just in our 300-yard sphere.
Read more here: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/news/thousands-of-birds-to-drop-out-of-the-sky-in-england/story-fn32891l-1226516345838
