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Anglesey dead Birds ‘could have been fleeing bird of prey’<\/h2>\n
Jan 16, 2020<\/p>\n
Hundreds of birds found dead on a road may have been killed trying to escape a bird of prey, police have said.<\/p>\n
More than 200 starlings were found dead on Anglesey on 11 December<\/a>.<\/p>\n One of the birds had a tag from Lithuania, 1,032 miles (1,662 km) from where it was found dead.<\/p>\n North Wales Police’s Rural Crime unit said investigations supported the theory they had hit the ground trying to avoid a predator.<\/p>\n Initial post-mortem examinations by the Animal Plant and Health Agency suggested the starlings had died on impact with the road.<\/p>\n One had a ring on its left leg and was ringed in 2015 Ventes Ragas, Lithuania, making it four years old.<\/p>\n “It’s highly likely the murmuration took avoiding action whilst airborne, from possibly a bird of prey with the rear of the group not pulling up in time and striking the ground,” a tweet from the unit said.<\/p>\n Mystery had surrounded the death of the birds with one starling expert suggesting they could have been disorientated by sun reflected from a wet road.<\/p>\n At the time Dafydd Edwards, whose partner found the birds, said it was as if “they had dropped down dead from the sky”.<\/p>\n The force said it was waiting for further toxicology results before a final theory could be confirmed.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-51134047<\/a><\/p>\n\n