I came across this in the news this morning and I started thinking about all the movies and theories I had ever seen or read about things that happen with the earths shifts or natural disasters. The recent earth quakes that tilted the earths axis and shifted the crust by 10 feet came to mind. Read this article then tell me what you think.

75 starlings crashed to death
Mystery surrounds the death of 75 starlings after they crashed on to a driveway, an animal charity said.

The birds were spotted falling from the sky and on to the driveway of a house in Coxley, Somerset, on Sunday March 7.

RSPCA animal welfare officer Alison Sparkes was alerted to the unusual incident by the police and went to help.

Do you think this could have anything to do with shifts or changes in the earths core possibly caused by the quakes? Or could it have to do with the depolerization and magnetic field from the shift of the earths axis? Can so slight a shift cause this reaction with the birds or do you think their is another explanation?

falcon, I think it is totally possible for the starlings' magnetic homing device to be affected.  A 10' shift is significant, and 75 starlings falling to their death is significant, and yes, I feel they are related.

From a scientific perspective it may be useful to look at the physical dynamics that would have caused the death of the birds on this scale. I estimate that the total mass of each bird to be no more than (say) 75 grammes at sea level and falling at a dead mass rate. the speed of the impact would be the causal effect of the death of the bird(s) but that is without considering the lessening effect of the feathers etc (even cats of 5kg can fall a long way and not be injured). It would therefore have been the speed of impact that would have caused injury and death. It would seem likely therefore that the birds would have had to have been actively flying at a significant speed in order to cause death i.e. crash dived. But what about them looking where they were going? perhaps they were being hunted by a hawk of some kind and took their eyes off the road in a similar way as we see in mass flocking.

it doesn't feel like a shift in magnetism issue as this is merely a general navigation dysfunction and wouldn't have caused them to crash into the ground, merely to have gone off course - but then they are not long distance migratory birds.


mmmmm! Curious.

That is interesting, but with my logical mind I ask the question, why was it only the starlings that were affected?  Surley if it was some sort of magnetic field then all the birds that were flying at the time would be affected.  The one thing that springs to mind is a sonic weapon that works on sound waves and can be aimed at a target.  I can not remember where abouts in the UK they were testing this weapon, but the people living in the surrounding area saw it effects.  If I find the article, I will add a further post.

mmm! lol I still think they would have had to have been flying at full tilt to be killed in the first place and if so why did'nt they see the ground. the natural gps in birds is a navigation aid - not a blind flight system. migratory birds use the natural compass to get from a to b, not to control flight.

It is odd and you're absoluteley right we will see loads of this kind of stuff. but, it may here also be something like them being chased by something like (say) a falcon. Chase me falcon lol.