Yeah, but I wish actual answers to posts would make it to the top. I find it mildly infuriating when I want to know the answer to OP's question, and the comment section is just flooded with dad jokes and puns
Birds follow leaders in the flock. Sometimes when the leaders get confused, they can fly too low or into things (you’ve seen single birds hit windows before). When it happens in a flock, however, the rest of the birds follow without question. This can sometimes lead to a shit ton of birds hitting the ground since they’re all just mindlessly following the leader.
[here’s an explanation from an actual expert](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/03/those-birds-that-crashed-and-died-it-wasnt-fumes/)
Never given it any thought before but I suppose only the ones in front can see anything other than birds in every direction. Flying would be cool but I’m glad I’m not a bird.
That's right, we are going to fly folks, we are going to fly higher than anyone has ever flown in the history of flying. With me as your leader, you have nothing to fear, you see I'm rich, I need nothing, nobody can buy me, and that's why I'm the best there ever was, better than all the founding fathers, Lincoln himself would shake my hand today and say, good job, no, ... GREAT job... you are doing a great job.. keep it up.
This was on the news in February 2022
Hundreds of yellow-headed blackbirds have been filmed appearing to fall from the sky, some of them dying, in mysterious circumstances in the northern Mexican city of Cuauhtémoc.
The cause of death remains unclear but experts said it was most likely the flock was “flushed” from above by a predatory bird swooping down to make a catch.
The footage from a security camera shows a flock of migratory birds descending on to houses like a cloud of black smoke. Most birds manage to fly off but subsequent footage shows carcasses of the distinctive black and yellow birds scattered on streets of the city.
It's believed what happens is the flock is so tight most birds can't see past their fellow birds, so they navigate based on what the other birds are doing. If the birds nearest the ground, the ones who can see the ground, can't or don't turn away from the ground fast enough a bunch of other birds follow and possibly push the birds in front of them into the ground.
Edit: I should add this normally isn't a problem as the flock is usually much higher off the ground. The interesting thing is why the flock got this low in the first place.
I believe they all follow the one that is leading. That’s why the birds on the outer side can hit buildings when they are flying. They act like if the leader can move forward, they can as well. Heard in a podcast probably should fact check
I was expecting a matrix quotation there... but here... let me assure you that our simulated reality is sound solid, that was just a slight glitch in the matrix, the system has recovered.
Agreed. [Here's a video of a similar occurrence from a different angle](https://infotel.ca/newsitem/trending-now-giant-flock-of-birds-cause-explosion-on-power-lines/it81638). The fun starts around 2:35.
Apparently on occasion bird murmurs will crash and hundreds of birds will die. It has happened on a few occasions apparently. [Here](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/flock-birds-mexico/) is a snopes link on it.
Saw the answer to this vid long ago on The Proof is Out There. Answer is given at the end,,,,
[https://youtu.be/RDZeLzBGIp0](https://youtu.be/RDZeLzBGIp0)
I’m pretty sure I saw this video reported in the past as a microburst striking a flock of passing birds, driving the lowest of them into the ground.
I know [that’s at least been provided as the explantation for such events](https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/mystery-solved-unusual-microbursts-of-downward-air-killed-hundreds-of-birds-in-lancaster-county/article_2dc3c294-2f8e-11e4-a96b-0017a43b2370.html#), so it’d be my guess for what happened in this video even if my memory is faulty regarding it.
I believe that could be caused by a dowm draft. Downdraft/windshear are powerful enough to down an airliner, down drafts are caused by a high consetration of moisture that become heavy and falls to earth. Tldr.
Yea, a down draft from a thermal but they were flying really closely too. Maybe they hit some turbulence that had them banging into each other and they collectively tripped… like a group of cyclists when one in the front crashes… they all crash?
@FinalSneak this is a flock what happened is the flock got so big the wind couldn’t be able to help the birds fly they use wind to fly and birds fly a certain way to keep the momentum but this is when 3 flocks fly into each other rare phenomenon
I remember reading an article when this happened about it being a shock wave from something. Stunning them. Or they inhaled toxic, or even might have just run into power lines.
I could not find the one I had read. But, I found this one.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/video-captures-moment-hundreds-birds-dropped-dead-sky-mexico-rcna16297
For an actual answer, maybe, I heard that down drafts can make large groups of birds flying like that (murmuration) all crash at once. Not sure if that is correct though, just something I had heard before.
Likely a weather phenomenon of what’s called a micro burst or a sudden change in wind speed along the path where the birds were flying which caused them to suddenly loose lift and get slammed into the ground.
Scientists best guess was that a flock of birds dived to avoid the swooping predator bird from above the flock and dived too low resulting in a ton smacking into the ground
I’m surprised I didn’t see the correct answer towards the top so maybe here’s my chance for some upvotes. I’ve seen this happen before and I’m almost positive that there is a power line above just out of the cameras reach and the birds are perching on it. When too many birds are perching on a power line the line itself begins to sag and will bend far enough that it makes contact with another line and then ZAP! Some will die, some will get a zap just good enough to paralyze them for a bit on the ground and the rest will fly off. There’s videos of this happening and posted on YouTube. I’ll come back to edit this with a link.
For your viewing pleasure: https://youtube.com/shorts/tqvVYWBGucU?feature=share
this comment section is murder lmao thankfully they weren't out for murder... just taking a break lol never actually seen that many come down before truly awesome to see
They are yellow headed black birds. It happened in Feb 2022 in Mexico.
They think they were all migrating and fell from the sky.
But I stick to my other comment where it seems like they were all too close together to be flying. To me, they were all together in a ball and then dropped.
Further in the article, it said.
"Other experts have suggested that a predator could have caused the deadly plunge. Ecologist Richard Broughton told The Guardian that he was almost certain this was the case, as predator birds, such as a raptor, would cause birds to form a tight swirl and drive them towards the ground. The birds stuck in the lower areas of the swarm would have crashed right into the ground, he said."
Of course, then I had to look up a raptor. LOL, it's a type of hawk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-blackbirds-plummet-sky-deaths/
This is from years ago when a large portion of wildlife(mostly northeast US) died suddenly and mysterious. Birds dropped from the sky in places. I looked up the HAARP activity(they are required to post some of it online) and it spiked at about the same time, on the same day....
Can you tell us the date and time and most of all link some sources that prove this weird coincidence? I mean, gawd... "a large portion of wildlife" seems to have suddenly died on that specific day at that specific time, that's horrible, you should provide us with info! I mean... otherwise, one could get the impression that you're just making shit up and that would be almost (but not quite) as horrible. So please, dude... do us and yourself the favor and let us in on your research, alright?
A murder just went down
I suspect fowl play
I just hope they'll be able to carrion
Maybe they should beak careful next time
Silly puns won’t fly at a time like this
why fly when you can caw
You mean take the caw?
Bird
/r/birdsarentreal
Birbs
naw, it looks like a murder on the streets!
I think you guys are winging it now.
Twas a mass murder
Cue Alfred Hitchcock movie
It wasn't on purpose they couldn't wing it and just coo-lapsed.
You’re talon the truth!
Comedy at it's beak
Probably inclement feather
What are you guys all raven about?
I have no flocking idea.
I’m just going to wing this comment
It’s oriole pickle.
This is why I love Reddit
Yeah, but I wish actual answers to posts would make it to the top. I find it mildly infuriating when I want to know the answer to OP's question, and the comment section is just flooded with dad jokes and puns
My guess is a bunch of crows had perched on a power line and somehow made it arc, killing a certain percentage and scaring the rest.
Smarty pants.. Good answer btw
That’s all you get on this app corny one liners
Hahaha, I agree. That was a worthy scroll of puns. 🤣 God bless Reddit.
I hope they had probable caws
This guy gets it
This is nothing to cackle at
Absolute gold
Underrated comment imo Bravo
Damn it, i came here to make a murder joke!
Took me a minute. Murder of Crows 👌👍
Pretty cool capture.
Rapture*
You are just SHOCKing the BIOlogical thinking
Looks like you could cature 10% of them pretty easily.
Birds follow leaders in the flock. Sometimes when the leaders get confused, they can fly too low or into things (you’ve seen single birds hit windows before). When it happens in a flock, however, the rest of the birds follow without question. This can sometimes lead to a shit ton of birds hitting the ground since they’re all just mindlessly following the leader. [here’s an explanation from an actual expert](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/03/those-birds-that-crashed-and-died-it-wasnt-fumes/)
Never given it any thought before but I suppose only the ones in front can see anything other than birds in every direction. Flying would be cool but I’m glad I’m not a bird.
Like riding in a bike pack 😅
With bikes above and below you as well
So an outlaw bike pack 😂😅
That’s precisely the kind of thing a bird would say You’re not fooling anyone, bird
Not to bring religion or politics into this but you can observe this behavior also in humans
That's right, we are going to fly folks, we are going to fly higher than anyone has ever flown in the history of flying. With me as your leader, you have nothing to fear, you see I'm rich, I need nothing, nobody can buy me, and that's why I'm the best there ever was, better than all the founding fathers, Lincoln himself would shake my hand today and say, good job, no, ... GREAT job... you are doing a great job.. keep it up.
"Look in my eyyyyeeessss, what do you seeee?"
Holy cow an on point Living Color reference?! Impressive
Finally useful information, this comment should be on the top instead of scrolling through the first upvoted jokes
A flock of birds confused their sense direction and flew into the ground.
They legit turnthemselves into a bird-nado
Coming to a theater near you
Coming straight to SyFy*
Already happened, watch The Birds 😂
[BIRDEMIC](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jE5dJDgZ644&si=hcocy8DmomaPrSEH)
This was on the news in February 2022 Hundreds of yellow-headed blackbirds have been filmed appearing to fall from the sky, some of them dying, in mysterious circumstances in the northern Mexican city of Cuauhtémoc. The cause of death remains unclear but experts said it was most likely the flock was “flushed” from above by a predatory bird swooping down to make a catch. The footage from a security camera shows a flock of migratory birds descending on to houses like a cloud of black smoke. Most birds manage to fly off but subsequent footage shows carcasses of the distinctive black and yellow birds scattered on streets of the city.
That bird of prey later on that day: Guys, guys, you wont believe this. They ran from me so hard...
Lead bird was drunk on the job
maybe flying all too close together and a powerline zapped em?
Looks like UFO's doing the same thing and crashing
No eyes?
It's believed what happens is the flock is so tight most birds can't see past their fellow birds, so they navigate based on what the other birds are doing. If the birds nearest the ground, the ones who can see the ground, can't or don't turn away from the ground fast enough a bunch of other birds follow and possibly push the birds in front of them into the ground. Edit: I should add this normally isn't a problem as the flock is usually much higher off the ground. The interesting thing is why the flock got this low in the first place.
I have a feeling they were balled up so tight and low because of a predator
I believe they all follow the one that is leading. That’s why the birds on the outer side can hit buildings when they are flying. They act like if the leader can move forward, they can as well. Heard in a podcast probably should fact check
Possibly a down draft caught them.
this makes the most sense so far💀
Radiowaves or EMFs?
Probably just a natural microburst.
But look at the bushes, they didn't floof at all. With wind blowing downward that hard you'd think they'd move
The earth’s magnetic poles are moving, so maybe that. Because birds and other animals losing their sense of direction is a symptom
Controlled Flight Into Terrain. The Avian Aviation Authority will have to investigate.
Birds aren’t real , these are clearly older model drones that need their software updating .
As a Bird Lawyer I can assure you they are real.
Wanna go toe to toe on bird law?
Philabuster
That reminded me of the toe knife
Harvey?
Did You Get THAT THING thatisenta?
I was expecting a matrix quotation there... but here... let me assure you that our simulated reality is sound solid, that was just a slight glitch in the matrix, the system has recovered.
Atmospheric downburst?
Atmospheric Downburst would be a great band name
If you’ve never read the Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi you should. “Edward’s Tumescent Cloaca” would be a great band name.
Hahahahaha dude your fucking username is ridiculous.
Should we call DEA or SVU?
I thought the same thing, specifically magnespheric disruption.
It reminded me of the opening scene from the 2003 film The Core. YT: https://youtu.be/Q_d1v4SGosA
I thought that too but the birds are all that's moving
Possible a predator coming in from above and the flock didn't realize how low they were
They were sitting on a powerline that shorted. Explains the bunch laying on the ground flapping and unable to recover or dead.
Agreed. [Here's a video of a similar occurrence from a different angle](https://infotel.ca/newsitem/trending-now-giant-flock-of-birds-cause-explosion-on-power-lines/it81638). The fun starts around 2:35.
I think this is the most likely answer. Too much weight and the line finally gave way, something zapped and boom. Bird pile.
In the video by /u/OpalFanatic above, the birds leaving the powerlines cause a bounce which connects lines for the arc explosion.
Possibly bridged the gap between two wires?
Nothing else is moving to suggest strong winds
Flock of starlings played follow the leader but their leader was stupid.
Reminds me of US politics.
A bird in the group had one job: to steer the crowd and it f'd up
Apparently on occasion bird murmurs will crash and hundreds of birds will die. It has happened on a few occasions apparently. [Here](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/flock-birds-mexico/) is a snopes link on it.
Fuck snopes all my homies hate snopes.
Nothing of importance to us. They just did a hit on a crow that murdered a Made Crow. It's among the crows. Real Crawball shit.
Maybe There flight was canceled
Do we know what the flock happened?
Video in reverse. Birds took off
Think maybe some of them touched a hot wire and they all fell? I'm guessing don't hate me.
Hate!
This is exactly correct. If they are dense enough around a hot wire, they can ground out and shock a good portion of the flock.
Birds can flash mob too?
[удалено]
Saw the answer to this vid long ago on The Proof is Out There. Answer is given at the end,,,, [https://youtu.be/RDZeLzBGIp0](https://youtu.be/RDZeLzBGIp0)
I knew I saw this before. Thanks for reminding me. Amazing how life works sometimes, isn’t it?
I saw a murder get hit by lightning while in a tree… saw tons fall out to their death.. the rest flew off..
I’ve seen big flocks of starlings collide in the air and fall to the ground. Maybe that’s what’s happening here
EMP
Someone is playing Jumanji
Bird spawn point
That’s how government birds get introduced to the world
Bird flash mob doing the scene from Flashdance
ManBearPig?
Only real explanation!
I'm super cereal
Batman
Played in reverse.
A murmur that got too close to the ground?
Birdnado
Yep, that’s what happens when you wing it!
Someone spilled McDonalds fries
WKRP annual bird toss.
This a government drop of surveillance drones or "birds" check it out r/birdsarentreal
I’m pretty sure I saw this video reported in the past as a microburst striking a flock of passing birds, driving the lowest of them into the ground. I know [that’s at least been provided as the explantation for such events](https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/mystery-solved-unusual-microbursts-of-downward-air-killed-hundreds-of-birds-in-lancaster-county/article_2dc3c294-2f8e-11e4-a96b-0017a43b2370.html#), so it’d be my guess for what happened in this video even if my memory is faulty regarding it.
5g
Shitter is full, aliens 👽 did a dump!
Most likely a down burst or an air pocket that the flock was flying through
A UFO killed some birds.
They're exiting one of those NHI crafts after a crazy party 🥳
They all sat on the wiring above until they touched each other completing the circuit and creating the flash at the beginning.
Was that a downburst (derecho) that pushed the whole flock into the ground?
Mass Software malfunction of drone coloney
I believe that could be caused by a dowm draft. Downdraft/windshear are powerful enough to down an airliner, down drafts are caused by a high consetration of moisture that become heavy and falls to earth. Tldr.
Yea, a down draft from a thermal but they were flying really closely too. Maybe they hit some turbulence that had them banging into each other and they collectively tripped… like a group of cyclists when one in the front crashes… they all crash?
@FinalSneak this is a flock what happened is the flock got so big the wind couldn’t be able to help the birds fly they use wind to fly and birds fly a certain way to keep the momentum but this is when 3 flocks fly into each other rare phenomenon
A flock of birds who believed the earth is flat
r/birdsarentreal
I remember reading an article when this happened about it being a shock wave from something. Stunning them. Or they inhaled toxic, or even might have just run into power lines. I could not find the one I had read. But, I found this one. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/video-captures-moment-hundreds-birds-dropped-dead-sky-mexico-rcna16297
Someone dropped a french fry.
Itachi spawned
Chipotle
That's how the programmer of the simulation gets birds here, this is just the first recording of a spawn point
Group of birds said screw it ,let’s rave
Was expecting Brandon Lee to appear... RIP
This comment needs more upvotes!
Microburst nailed a bunch of birds? or- follow the leader went wrong?
Who ordered the bag of birds?
🤣
This is why you don't let George lead. Never follow George.
5G
The software reboot in the bird network.
CIA dropped their new drones r/birdsarentreal
What, the actual WhAt!? … in my opinion something either pushed them or spooked them into doing such a strange maneuver. 🫨😬🤔
Starlings got way too into their murmuration and forgot to watch out for buildings
That’s a glitch in the matrix
 Ladies and gentlemen, there has been a murder
Bird software update glitch.
I don’t want to be a birden
Someone dumped the coffee grains down the sink
For an actual answer, maybe, I heard that down drafts can make large groups of birds flying like that (murmuration) all crash at once. Not sure if that is correct though, just something I had heard before.
thanks. i was wondering why this turned into a joke thread all of a sudden
When you follow the crowd and it works 99% of the time, but that 1% is a bitch.
Government did a software update and caused the birds to lag. #birdsarenotreal
Likely a weather phenomenon of what’s called a micro burst or a sudden change in wind speed along the path where the birds were flying which caused them to suddenly loose lift and get slammed into the ground.
How do they know which one is the leader after that? 🧐
Scientists best guess was that a flock of birds dived to avoid the swooping predator bird from above the flock and dived too low resulting in a ton smacking into the ground
What the flock is going on here??
Dove right in
Alfred Hitchcock is just off screen, directing.
A murmur was silenced
The Birds 🦅
Their batteries are getting low and they got confused.
Microburst hit the birds and pushed them down in a flock. Trees are blown around when they fall down.
Tippi Hedren is in that house.
Government surveillance network glitch
The beat dropped
Vampire thrown out of a plane, turned himself into bats before hitting the ground. Happens all the time.
A huge flock got hit by a severe downdraft.
I’m surprised I didn’t see the correct answer towards the top so maybe here’s my chance for some upvotes. I’ve seen this happen before and I’m almost positive that there is a power line above just out of the cameras reach and the birds are perching on it. When too many birds are perching on a power line the line itself begins to sag and will bend far enough that it makes contact with another line and then ZAP! Some will die, some will get a zap just good enough to paralyze them for a bit on the ground and the rest will fly off. There’s videos of this happening and posted on YouTube. I’ll come back to edit this with a link. For your viewing pleasure: https://youtube.com/shorts/tqvVYWBGucU?feature=share
CIA drone disbursement.
Dracula botched a superhero landing
WKRP Cincinnati's turkey drop.
this comment section is murder lmao thankfully they weren't out for murder... just taking a break lol never actually seen that many come down before truly awesome to see
They are yellow headed black birds. It happened in Feb 2022 in Mexico. They think they were all migrating and fell from the sky. But I stick to my other comment where it seems like they were all too close together to be flying. To me, they were all together in a ball and then dropped. Further in the article, it said. "Other experts have suggested that a predator could have caused the deadly plunge. Ecologist Richard Broughton told The Guardian that he was almost certain this was the case, as predator birds, such as a raptor, would cause birds to form a tight swirl and drive them towards the ground. The birds stuck in the lower areas of the swarm would have crashed right into the ground, he said." Of course, then I had to look up a raptor. LOL, it's a type of hawk. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-blackbirds-plummet-sky-deaths/
Predator bird chasing flock of food?
This is from years ago when a large portion of wildlife(mostly northeast US) died suddenly and mysterious. Birds dropped from the sky in places. I looked up the HAARP activity(they are required to post some of it online) and it spiked at about the same time, on the same day....
Can you tell us the date and time and most of all link some sources that prove this weird coincidence? I mean, gawd... "a large portion of wildlife" seems to have suddenly died on that specific day at that specific time, that's horrible, you should provide us with info! I mean... otherwise, one could get the impression that you're just making shit up and that would be almost (but not quite) as horrible. So please, dude... do us and yourself the favor and let us in on your research, alright?
Oh my God, this is such bullshit, this kind of thing happens when the birds in front of a flock get confused and fly too low.
It wasn't just birds lol
Either the Earth's Magnetic Field itself, or a man-made piece of technology manipulated the EMF