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Wednesday, 4 March 2020

Flock Of 1,000 Birds Found Dead Near Small Missouri Town

By Bob Miller On Mar 3, 2020

Flock of 1,000 birds are uncovered useless on street of modest Missouri city soon after ‘severe thunderstorm spooked them to death’
The Missouri Division of Conservation was inundated with calls on Monday about the birds, found just west of Sikeston 
Condition wildlife agents found carcasses of 4 fowl types: purple-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and European starlings 
Experiences of the lifeless birds very first started out on Sunday at around 8 to 9 pm 
They started out all over the similar time ‘a thunderstorm moved as a result of the area’ 
Most of the birds uncovered typically journey and roost alongside one another in huge flocks 
Officers talk to that any citizens who have observed hen carcasses on their residence to ‘collect them with gloves, bag them, and put them in their trash for neighborhood decide-up’ 


Released: 17:10 EST, 3 March 2020 | Up-to-date: 18:26 EST, 3 March 2020

It is really like anything out of a horror movie! 

Inhabitants of a small Missouri town found themselves perplexed as extra than 1,000 lifeless birds have been uncovered in a close by area. 

Andrew Mothershead, an agent with Scott County Conservation, shared on Fb that the Missouri Section of Conservation was inundated with calls on Monday about the birds. 

Mothershead and Kevin Brunke, a Natural History Biologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation, responded to Wakefield Street, west of Sikeston, to look into the birds. 

The Missouri Department of Conservation was inundated with calls on Monday about the birds, witnessed just west of Sikeston

There, the pair observed carcasses of 4 bird varieties: crimson-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and European starlings. 

‘We also noticed numerous birds demonstrating signals of actual physical injury in locations of vegetated address near the roadway,’ Mothershead stated in the release, incorporating that much more dead birds ended up uncovered in a variety of neighborhoods in the space. 

The reports of the useless birds first started off on Sunday at all over 8 to 9 pm, the agent stated. 

The reports began all-around the similar time ‘a thunderstorm moved via the region.’ 

Experiences of the useless birds 1st begun on Sunday at all-around 8 to 9 pm

They started out all-around the same time ‘a thunderstorm moved via the area’

Mothershead stated in his report that he had contacted the Nationwide Weather conditions Station in Paducah and confirmed that the Sikeston spot had knowledgeable ‘high winds, lightning, and some hail.’ 

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