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Mystery as 'hundreds' of birds found dead in the road

2019-12-13 1 Dailymotion

ANGLESEY, U.K. — Hundreds of starlings have been found lifeless on a lane in Anglesey, North Wales. <br /><br />The 200 plus birds were spotted by Hannah Stevens on Tuesday afternoon when she was on her way to an appointment; she saw the flock flying in the sky, however, about an hour later she found the birds dead in the road with blood on their bodies. <br /><br />She got on the phone and called her partner, Dafydd Edwards.<br /><br />41-year-old Edwards told Sky News that when his partner first saw the birds, "they took off to the fields—and she thought, 'Oh, that was a large number of birds', and then on her way back she found them all dead in the road."<br /><br />Mr. Edwards said, "It was very distressing—my gut instinct is that they have been poisoned, but we don't know." <br /><br />His partner, Ms. Stevens reported seeing the birds eating something in the road.<br /><br />The couple has since contacted the police and the Animal and Plant Health Agency who they say are looking into the incident. <br /><br />RSPB Wales told Sky News: "We are concerned with what we have seen."

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