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« on: March 10, 2010, 07:26:06 PM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8560398.stm
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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 08:30:50 PM »

Japanese origins and lingering grudge maybe?

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« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2010, 07:35:14 PM »

A bit early for 1st April so must sympathise with the starlings. I don't subscribe to the predator theory.
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« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2010, 08:32:33 PM »

A bit early for 1st April so must sympathise with the starlings. I don't subscribe to the predator theory.

Me neither Brian, but surely a mystery and await further news on possible poisoning, seem to remember something similar regarding Waxwings and fermenting apples???

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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2010, 09:59:10 PM »

Puzzling because Starlings will flock to any major available food source and they will eat almost anything that other common birds will so if they were poisoned wouldn't one have expected notable numbers of other species to have died at about the same time?
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« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2010, 08:23:08 PM »

Possibly, but the Waxwings seemed to be the only ones discovered en masse from poisoning. Of course if other birds were involved they might not have been noticed as a non flocking species and not in the same area as the Starlings when death struck? Whatever it will be interesting to follow the story and hopefully learn the cause of death.

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« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2010, 08:27:47 PM »

Agreed. I can't see any facility on the web site to receive updates so we'll have to keep looking at that area of the news site.
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« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2010, 07:01:02 PM »

I'm as puzzled as you all seem to be. The poisoning theory crossed my mind but for four-and-twenty starlings to all die simultaneously from poisoning or intoxication, and all fall on the same spot, seems a bit too much of a coincidence, don't you think?  I'll keep my beady on this story. Who knows? There may have been a post mortem.
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« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2010, 08:35:31 AM »

I've just Googled "starlings coxley" and, while there are plenty of (mostly local) news reports, it seems the experts are none the wiser. A typical report:
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/news/Birds-fell-sky-straight-garden/article-1898427-detail/article.html
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