Residents of Richmond, a city on the east side of San Francisco Bay, are growing increasingly concerned about a string of mysterious
—and often violent—bird deaths that seem to have no obvious explanation.

The deaths all seem to follow a similar pattern:
After a bird lands on a specific stretch of power line,
residents hear a loud popping sound, akin to a firecracker, reports KGO-TV’s Dion Lim.

Then, they see the creature’s body fall to the pavement.

A doorbell camera captured one of the strange fatalities on video, too.

The inexplicable incidents have killed mourning doves, European starlings, crows and other common backyard species.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cj6Lc1nNrM

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/birds-are-dying-mysterious-violent-deaths-in-this-northern-california-neighborhood-and-no-one-can-explain-why-180986623/

Bird strike deaths from windows are probably double what we thought because some birds fly away & die later, 1.09 bird deaths a year is new estimate https://rec-law.us/yc8p9xjz

#SaveMigratoryBirds @ABCbirds @CornellBirds #BirdDeaths @RecreationLaw #RecLaw #RecreationLaw

Buildings kill a billion US birds a year. These architects want to save them

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/27/birds-buildings-collisions-architecture?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #Wildlife #Birds #GlassBuildings #BirdDeaths #Skyscrapers