NEWS: DOZENS OF DEAD BIRDS
DISCOVERED ON NARAMATA ROAD IN SOUTH OKANAGAN.X
Mary Simonin was travelling down
Naramata Road on Sunday afternoon when she made a startling discovery.
She snapped photographs showing
at least 40 deceased birds littering the street.
“I thought something had fallen
out of a truck on the way to the landfill and I expected whatever birds to just
fly away and a couple did then nothing else moved,” she said. “I slowed down
and when I looked it was all these dead birds.”
She thought the birds were
European Starlings – an invasive species in the Okanagan.
“It was certainly unusual. Yes it
was strange. I tried to imagine what might have happened. I knew they couldn’t
have been electrocuted on the lines because birds are on there all of the time.
I counted at least 40 of them,” Simonin said.
The birds have now been cleared
from the road but how they died remains a mystery.
Wildlife officials say it’s not
the usual season for accidental poisoning from fermented fruit.
The Ministry of Forests, Lands
and Natural Resources said it has sent one of the birds to the animal health
lab for testing.
Results are expected in a few
weeks.
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