"Aflockalypse"

Don't be alarmed, that's just the title to Rachel Carson's long overdue sequel to "Silent Spring". But in all seriousness, birds continue to be found dead in the most random places. Good thing we've ruled out UFOs, according to the BBC.

Interesting to me in this article is discussion of the possibility that poison could've given the birds pneumonia. Ruled out by the report that they suffered acute blunt trauma rather than pneumonia, the BBC then reports that this could've occurred upon impact during flight even if they had pneumonia. What I think this terribly circular reasoning fails to recall is that if they had pneumonia, then the theory of them flying really low is all balderdash, which then would negate the possibility of them colliding with buildings. So maybe instead of trying to take fiction and find facts, let's take the facts (they died of acute blunt trauma) and re-tell the story from there. Or would that make too much sense?

And then there's that follow-up interview with someone whose job it is to track mass deaths of birds in the US. There's no words with which to adequately empathize with you, maam.