{"id":17568,"date":"2019-07-15T00:50:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=17568"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:37:54","slug":"birds-fall-from-sky-bleeding-from-beaks-and-eyes-and-die-wailing-in-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=17568","title":{"rendered":"Birds ‘fall from sky’ bleeding from beaks and eyes and die ‘wailing in pain’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rescuers described the sight of the sick birds as a ‘horror movie’ as the creatures lay around and ‘wailed in pain’ in Adelaide, South Australia<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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By\u00a0<\/span>Claire Gilbody-Dickerson \u00a0 JULY 13 2019<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Up to 60 birds have died in a suspected poisoning after “falling from the sky” covered in blood.<\/p>\n

The birds<\/a> – the majority of which were the protected long-billed corella –\u00a0 were found in South Australia on Wednesday as they fell out of trees and from the sky.<\/p>\n

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Some of the cockatoos, only three of which were the non-protected short-billed corella, were already dead when rescuers arrived at the sight.<\/p>\n

Others were alive but had blood streaming out of their eyes and beaks.<\/p>\n

They were taken to two veterinarians but of the 60-odd birds discovered at One Tree Hill, Adelaide, a staggering 58 died.<\/p>\n

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Only three of the birds were not the protected long-billed corella<\/span> (Image: Facebook)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The sight of the dead birds was described as a ‘horror movie’<\/span> (Image: Facebook)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n