Dozens of dead birds fall from sky in NJ (includes video)

Source: Dateline Zero 

The past few years, we didn’t see this sort of story until winter, or moving into spring. But we’re not even out summer and we have this…

Residents along Peach Drive in Millville [map] found at least 80 birds — mostly red-winged blackbirds — on the ground dead having fallen from trees and the sky. One neighbor even said he saw the birds falling out of the air.

“Crazy — something out of a movie,” said resident Michelle Cavalieri who saw the birds fall from the sky.

NBC Philadelphia report that the dead birds littered the roads and “caused a bloody mess on roadways” in the residential neighbourhood.

“They’d get up and try and fly and they were out of control so they’d crash and fall again,” said resident Jim Sinclair. “It was just strange.”

Animal control, public health officials and other emergency crews were on the scene later Tuesday morning collecting dead birds to try and figure out exactly what caused so many of them to die.

The Cumberland County Public Information Officer released a press release on Tuesday claiming it wasn’t something environmental that killed the birds but rather something they ate — a granular pesticide put down legally by nearby Ingraldi Farms.