Extraordinary video of yellow headed blackbird‘s crashing from the sky. In
Mexico.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2022/feb/14/flock-of-yellow-headed-blackbirds-drop-mysteriously-from-sky-in-mexico-video?CMP=share_btn_link
Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county
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It doesn't look like they died, it looks like they landed briefly then
took off again.
Scott Rashid
Estes park
On 2/15/2022 10:52 AM, 'Deborah Carstensen' via Colorado Birds wrote:
Extraordinary video of yellow headed blackbird‘s crashing from the sky. In
Mexico.
https://www.theguardian.com
It might be a part of a murmuration that got too close to the ground (possibly
avoiding predator as already noted). Except for the blue sky background, I
would wonder about a possible microburst or some other sudden downdraft, but
without meteorological data from the scene, the predator avoidanc
The Reuters Twitter video included in the provided link does indeed show
what appear to be dozens of dead Yellow-headed Blackbirds on the street...
Eric
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Eric DeFonso
near Lyons, Boulder County, CO
On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:12 PM Kevin Rumery wrote:
> It might be a part of a murmuratio
ch the birds come in from the surrounding fields from the roof of my hotel.
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