Large flocks of disoriented blackbirds flying into trucks again; carcasses ‘disappear’ before police arrive in one case

Bloomington, New Mexico:
Bloomfield highway dotted with dead birds

By Ryan Boetel rboetel@daily-times.com
Posted: 12/09/2011 02:00:47 AM
BLOOMFIELD Even Edgar Allan Poe may have gasped at the morbidity along Bloomfield Highway on Thursday.
At lunchtime on Thursday, 40 to 50 dead European starlings were scattered in a 50-foot circle across U.S. 64 in Bloomfield. Some were lying on their backs with their small feet sticking up in the air, and at least one of them was missing its head….

A wildlife biologist for the Bureau of Land Management who investigated the mass death cluster and determined that the birds had flown together into the side of a large vehicle is quoted as saying:

“It certainly is unusual. Usually birds are smarter than that.”

Jacksonville, North Carolina:

Cluster of dead birds leaves motorists, bystanders puzzled

November 30, 2011 9:14 PM
DAILY NEWS STAFF
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Officials with the Carteret County Sheriff’s Office said they had been called out to investigate the strange incident, but when they arrived on the scene just before 3 p.m., they could not locate the birds, and they closed the incident investigation shortly thereafter.

Photo of birds before they disappeared.

So in the first case, no autopsies are done to determine the cause of death and the bird carcasses are left to decompose along the highway or be eaten by predators. In the second case, police just close the their investigation because over 100 carcasses have disappeared in only 20 minutes?

Here are more reports of mass blackbird deaths in August in Michigan and Oklahoma.

Baltimore, Maryland area:

Police report that a large flock of birds launched a suicide attack on a van

What in the world could be happening to these blackbirds, especially the carcasses in NC that seemed to be ‘hiding in plain sight’ when local police arrived on the scene?

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