ABC13 News, by Will Stafford: Thursday was a normal afternoon on Radford University’s campus.
That’s before this happened: A flock of birds, more than 50 in total, fell out of the sky.
“I jumped in the car and drove to campus to try and figure out what was going on,” explained Karen Powers, a biology professor at Radford University.
This, however, was no window crash.
“It turns out it was just a swarm of birds on the ground. I was walking up to just one single sidewalk, and I probably counted at least a dozen dead birds to my left and my right,” said Powers.
Powers says they found 55 dead birds in just an hour. They did find two birds that while stunned, were alive!
They immediately sent them to the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center.
“Our main objective and mission is to rehab them and put them back out in the proper habitat,” said Sabrina Garvin, the director of the center.
Those birds are now recovering. The hope is that they’ll be released back into the wild soon.
So, what happened? Powers’s class has ruled out a few things.
“It’s not 5G, it’s not aliens, it’s not wind turbines,” said Powers.
Their theory is the birds may have been poisoned by alcohol.
“This time of the year, especially since we just had a warm period, then cold, then a warm period, that really can ferment the berries,” explained Powers.
Powers says this happens more than you may realize. It’s just this time, it happened on a bustling college campus.
Prophetic Link:
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” Romans 8:22.
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