Hundreds of Birds ‘Free Fall’ Out of the Sky

It’s a perfectly calm moment in Mexico, when suddenly, something mysterious falls from the sky! It’s a flock of black birds swirling to the ground, and it’s absolutely stunning. Hundreds and hundreds of the birds appear like a plume of black smoke. Within seconds, many of them fly off, but a considerable number are killed upon impact, left scattered on the ground. While it looks like they’re just free falling, Miami Zoo’s Ron Magill says that they were actually on the run from a predator.

[@amichaels8346]

There's NO way ALL those birds were THAT freaked out by a hawk or a predator, it had to have been something else.

[@genocyber4842]

🤣🤣 yeah it was a big scary ufo that made them do it

[@jennyblue42]

Godzilla has returned!

[@assureluvee777]

Exactly! We're bring deceived.💯💯

[@ChicagoDude-ej6rm]

UFO

[@ThunderingDiesel]

They saw a cop

[@Magencory17]

Could you imagine having been walking on that exact sidewalk at that exact moment? 😭😭😭😭

[@mikaeladonna590]

“yea i got crushed by a flock of birds”

[@NameThatSong1]

Since there is video footage, you could back up your story too!🦅

[@Brucelee89896]

that is definetly bad omen especially black birds

[@Rikka_V1]

@@Brucelee89896 Racist lol

[@Nasia-]

I’ll LITERALLY DIE☠️

[@chopstick134]

"You can see some of them died by the impact." 5 seconds later: "its pretty amazing!"☠️

[@user-to1su2iy4d]

Tell us you don't know what amazing means without telling us lol

[@ZA56AA]

Yes i also found it very weird and even the anchor woman was smiling !

[@DarianWade]

That it is

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

LOL

[@Alaryicjude]

​@@DarianWade, with a big wide grin... 🤦

[@JesseMeza07]

"Whatever the cause, it's pretty amazing" We lost hundreds that day Jim.

[@lordlittletoeq8537]

Jim: did I studder?

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

😭😭

[@adventurefighter7501]

Free food

[@Livin4Jesus00]

The definition of amazing fits here perfectly

[@thehat4244]

When did Amazing apply only to good things? Amazing, fantastic, and awesome all apply very well.

[@RoccosVideos]

The footage is insane. It’s hard to believe what I just saw. Would birds fly into the ground to avoid a predator?

[@lordextinction8322]

I think it’s more like they were more focused on what attacked them than what was bellow them

[@RoccosVideos]

Maybe.

[@trexmidnite]

Maybe the pesky hawk did that high speed vertical drop

[@loveiswaytruthlife995]

No way its to avoid a predator, bird instincts dont do that. Ive watched plenty of documentaries about birds to know they arent that stupid to fly straight into the ground even when chased by predators, they usually keep it high. This could be something else, hard to say which.

[@factacts_ist_scheie8469]

@@loveiswaytruthlife995 oh you watched documentations 😂😂😂😂

[@anthonyxavier6300]

I don't believe I would have said "pretty amazing" knowing dozens or even a hundred of birds that died on impact.

[@princessumaru4011]

yea! I agree. thats a really poor choice of wording.

[@Darbysmommy]

Exactly!!! Especially with a smile on her face. That’s effed up

[@oktayyildirim2911]

*would've EDIT: Thank you for correcting your comment.

[@ameliacof2234]

Exactly what I was thinking... How does anyone say amazing after watching so much death. That's twisted & cruel.

[@binkao2938]

More like horrifying and sad.

[@kennedysouza1939]

They don't fly individually, they fly in a collectively guided manner. If many of them decide to fly down and up to avoid a predator, the entire group will replicate the movement, even if there isn't enough altitude for everyone to do the maneuver.

[@IanCthrwd]

Best answer out of all the other…idiotic…descriptions. Starlings do the same thing at dusk. Thousands of them move about in this memorizing cloud of birds changing directions every second.

[@officialrpsgame]

I feel like humans behave in similar fashion

[@yaynative]

Still doesn't seem like a typical outcome of a predator attack 🤔

[@anexpiredyogurt4818]

@@yaynative I watched a bird fly down and into a window and kill itself to avoid a predator - with another bird smacking into it from behind to ensure the poor thing died on impact. I think it's just very atypical.

[@chettone8080]

This is false. Fish for example swim in groups to avoid predators (because predators will have to traverse larger distances until they find a prey), and when the group gets attacked by a predator they swim in all different directions to maximize they survival chances (as predators will get confused) and then slowly group up again (smaller groups first, then a big one). This same principle applies to flocks. This is explained in several books about chaos and complex systems.

[@v.o.c_]

“its pretty amazing” THERE’S DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE

[@El_Presidente_5337]

Himmler visiting a concentration camp.

[@ZT-vr4wz]

Birds like this have been attacked by predators before and yet have never done this. This is mostly definitely something else

[@cherylwilliams8237]

Exactly

[@jahnieyajohnson6280]

fr

[@SeaTurtle515]

I agree.

[@gavcom4060]

Honestly it could be wind shear

[@timbuk1126]

Methane

[@angelinemusuwika]

Magnetic anomaly, pulse. Birds as a flock, lost their up/down bearing same as stunt aerobatic pilots sometimes do during manuevers. Entire flock dived, lost track of how close to the ground they were, slammed into the ground full speed. Most got up, flew away but a number of them died on impact.

[@-berberry]

Wow, thanks for the explanation. That is sad.

[@What.The.Chell_lol]

makes sense! thanks for explaining it in a way for this idiot to understand!

[@Jadegreen]

@@carolynhazlett6973 I mean, the high is nice. It coulda been crack…

[@cautionTosser]

you're a superstar, Angeline. puts my alien theory to shame. :)

[@trexmidnite]

Those computer brained birds.. make more mistakes than a crumbly ol tezla..

[@Detroit_Dawg]

Hundreds of birds twitching on the pavement, most dead... Announcer: "Pretty amazing!" 😐

[@veeyoooh]

Hawk: wassup fel- Birds: TERRAIN, TERRAIN. PULL UP. PULL UP Hawk: las…

[@rcnewman51.]

I think we can all agree this wasn’t a predator attack… the question is what happened to cause all these birds to crash into the ground. Their impact created a giant dust cloud…

[@manwithstds7503]

How can you not agree?

[@chuckwaardenburg496]

The speculation is they hit a giant cloaked top secret aircraft..

[@nashambenyisrael7689]

@@chuckwaardenburg496 how do you know

[@manwithstds7503]

@@chuckwaardenburg496 yes or the government is killing birds to make vaccines.

[@gasolinecake]

i mean if its not a predator it could literally just be something as mundane as a plane or helicopter

[@cwa2628]

Have seen huge flocks of birds all my life. Was a bird watcher many years. Birds have been navigating skies, winds, weather changes, predators forever. Planes can be a problems for some. But, this is not a normal occurrence.

[@paxbodhi7566]

Seeing that many birds flying together in general is not normal … THIS .. this is definitely unnerving

[@Mycenaea]

@@paxbodhi7566 It is *very* normal for birds to gather in masses like this. It's just that many breeds don't. I could name some, but don't know their names in English so would need to look for latin names and cba to do that :P

[@himawari.520]

@@paxbodhi7566 actually it's normal to see birds flock like this, especially during migration seasons, but not all bird species.

[@redoredo107]

@@paxbodhi7566 emmm its actually normal for birds to fly in big flocks like this

[@paxbodhi7566]

@@Mycenaea wow I had no idea. I never see soo many birds flying together at once.. definitely interesting

[@Ricksdetrix]

obviously impossible to tell, but it looks like a starling murmuration. I guess it's possible that a predator could've scared them into the ground during murmuration. I don't really know enough about them but they have insane reaction times, my guess would be some kind of herd mentality thing since they navigate by the birds around them so if the flock 'dances' into the ground they're none the wiser

[@ryanside7095]

Imagine this happening on some random person and they just mysteriously vanish when all the birds clear out.

[@ryushogun9890]

Nosferatu

[@DanielWolfe]

Something caused every single bird to fall from the sky simultaneously. It’s like something you’ve seen out of a movie.

[@dididhbdde6571]

5g tower

[@Healthinspeacter]

@@dididhbdde6571 no

[@ManOfPillowDoom]

@@dididhbdde6571 🤣

[@tgmtf5963]

@@dididhbdde6571 yep that is

[@GHOSTTIEF]

@@dididhbdde6571 in Mexico dude

[@GTSE2005]

I don't think a predator, or even a massive group of predators could cause something that drastic

[@earth2yari]

exactly.

[@trawlins396]

Agree

[@eduardogomez2913]

Most likely it was a methane gas pocket.

[@jinpachibobochan3532]

They did look like they flew away from something chasing them.

[@deeem4795]

I agree. I honestly feel it was something else.

[@MekanSSJ]

The idea that a predator did that is ridiculous.

[@thedailyruns6046]

Read more into it. What would your guess be.

[@markrouse2416]

0:26 to 0:27 Check out the dust cloud to the right of the flock as it travels across the street. Looks like the end result to a microburst caused by dense cold air coming off a rain cloud. Since the air in Mexico is so dry it may not be reaching the ground. The same conditions have knocked commercial aircraft out of the sky.

[@God-T]

This was cannibalism!! straight up kamikaze killing!!

[@goku445]

@@markrouse2416 No. The dust is cause by the birds themselves, smashing into the ground, that's obvious.

[@staind.raindrop]

There was not enough distance for them to gain enough momentum to crush their bones with just the weight of their bodies nose diving toward the ground from that height. There had to have been extra force propelling them. Also, if there was a predator, they flew right back in its direction the instant they regained control of their flight, which makes the notion thoroughly ridiculous. The trajectory of the flock is shaped like a large gust of wind, and all the physics point to them being forcefully blown out of the sky.

[@Smokeyjoedamanedamythdalegend]

It looks like they got hit by a downburst or something with the amount of force some of them hit the ground. You can see some dust kick up too, and the immediately fly back up. I don’t think if they were escaping a predator they’d all immediately go back the same direction

[@tander101]

That's very plausible

[@peterpetruzzi]

“TOO LOW TERRAIN. PULL UP. PULL UP”

[@KneppaH]

this

[@HiroSunboi]

SINK RATE, PULL UP

[@grax4131]

DON'T SINK.....DON'T SINK

[@BharatDesignServices]

MINIMUM MINIMUM

[@SFlare]

THIRT- TWEN- TE-

[@jud4643]

There’s absolute no way the birds were THAT terrified from a hawk or a predator. It’s gotta be something else.

[@395leandro]

I would guess a microburst. It's a sudden vertical wind downburst that is known to do that with planes. The birds just suddenly and temporarily lost lift on their wings. It's my best guess.

[@raw_oyster]

Good Job on coping a comment with over 9 k likes Almost word for word. 🤦‍♂️👍

[@guilhermepicolloduarte8110]

5g

[@maine-coon1]

stolen

[@weirddudegamer]

@@raw_oyster coping

[@ptrd4111]

Everytime the birds fall it sounds like theyre picking up a SKATE letter

[@AkilaeAK]

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" "Aim for the bushes. 😎"

[@Maybe.Its_You]

I wouldn’t describe it as pretty amazing, I would describe it as pretty sad. It’s crazy how it happened for sure though

[@-EricaCartman]

Agreed! His comment and her "That it is" made me have to dislike this video.

[@katana909]

@@-EricaCartman Yeah, when they said 'pretty amazing'. I was thinking WTF?!

[@joshuaarmijo4884]

I thought the same thing... I was like amazing???

[@mirlov]

Damn guys, there's war going on right now; a global crisis, and you're worried about how the news anchor said, "amazing" (which means surprising)

[@Templemunn56]

true dat, bet it would be sad if that was humans aye

[@cewe2003]

I have never seen anything like this happen before. But when I was a child, I once saw an entire flock of birds land in my backyard. I was a liyule freaked out by it so I ran out the door to scare them away. Well, a few minutes later I looked into the front yard and there they all were. It was truly quite the sight to see! I’m talking hundreds of birds just milling about.

[@rayhinckley14]

Most likely a migration some birds travel in packs or groups I use to see 100s probably thousands of these black birds in my yard and grandparents yard during spring each year or fall they would appear for 15 or so minutes and move away haven't seen them in 6-7 years

[@thisworldisnotmyhome747]

That happens every winter here in Indiana. I go out and feed them.

[@thundercat7163]

Did you just say you've never seen something like this before then proceed to tell us you've infact actually seen something like this before? Dafuq my g?

[@sylvyboi]

How come you been Liyue if it hasn't even existed 🤨

[@Mitskibiggestfan]

@@sylvyboi genshin fans smh

[@ash7324]

‘The sound of a special trick from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater was also heard at the scene’

[@Nzbdjcnx]

That lady smiling and agreeing while smiling at the death of all those birds: deranged.

[@msullivan85]

It looks like they didn't "fall" but instead were "blasted" with air. Very strange. The idea that the flock did this on their own to avoid a predator is ridiculous btw.

[@ThatGuy-eq9mz]

Agreed

[@fucksake893]

Yea, if you change the settings on the video to 0.25 speed and pause frame by frame, you can see a lot of dust being blown up off the ground.

[@yukit119]

@@fucksake893 the blown up dust can come from the impact of the birds i think. but i agreed thats never a predator

[@fucksake893]

@@yukit119 Yea I'm not sure of the physics, it's also not the first report I've come across about birds falling from the sky. I recall seeing and article years ago, there was a photo of some dead birds in a dessert that apparently all just died and fell form the sky at the same time.

[@vashisl33t]

It was indeed a predator another bird in fact. The react to them same way a school of fish reacts to predators. The whoosh of dust was the air from birds flying down that fast. Youd be surprised how much air even 1 bird can move.

[@cunnyarchivetwt]

Looked something out of a horror movie.. imagine walking by and seeing this all of a sudden

[@blackrose1293]

Even worse, Imagine walking by and ending up right below them 💀

[@kokainejane773]

My ass would be GONE😳🤣🏃🏾‍♀️

[@hello-gx6oi]

Birdemic flashbacks

[@ChineduOpara]

"¡dios mío!"

[@ManOfPillowDoom]

@VHTesla AGAIN, MOVIE!

[@mannyfernandez2983]

Birds: *accidentally kill themselves trying to escape a predator* News Anchor: Pretty amazing! 😍😍

[@goku445]

this is why i don't watch news anymore.

[@nawnaw4709]

when you understand how a bird flock works and how an attack from a predator could start a reaction chain. being that low and with the attack coming from top the result will be this behavior

[@krashd]

Exactly. But idiots will always idiot.

[@MollyBurkeOfficial]

My biggest fear is birds so this is... terrifying. I can't imagine standing on the sidewalk when taht happened. That said, this is horribly sad for the birds who didn't make it!

[@bobfernandez7762]

Why you scared of birds🐦???

[@slobmaster585]

Really out of everything a 2 pound bird Is your biggest fear?

[@sillycheese301]

@@bobfernandez7762 poopoo

[@jxc7512]

jesus christ

[@lynsaenz916]

Oh my God... Me too!!! Finally saw someone who understands me😰😰😰

[@liselopez3196]

aww those laying on the floor injured breaks my heart. rest easy little birdies.

[@TheRetroWoman80]

😔ikr

[@__maroon__]

Same, that’s why I cringed at the word ‘amazing’ used.

[@christopherkaczmarek4419]

I feel bad for them

[@ajhanique]

@@__maroon__ me too. Like what’s amazing about half of them dying..??

[@Littleone124]

@@__maroon__ I thought the same thing. Nothing amazing about that.

[@CapemanProducti0ns]

That one bird: "mom I'm different! I want to do things MY way, I'll go down just an inch!" All the other birds with follower instincts:

[@Robot-Overlord]

It's at the same axis as that electrical line. They probably got shocked.

[@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078]

It’s laughable that whoever developed this video thought that anyone would buy the asinine assertion that a hawk caused hundreds of birds to crash into the ground. Do they really think that we’re stupid??

[@tyjohnston5889]

Yeah they do lol.

[@eneseusm459]

I doubt it was a Hawk. Maybe an Oman

[@beach_boy1141]

I mean they believe anything else they tell them…why not this?

[@DytoxPrime]

thousands? where do you see thousands?

[@nev5238]

Well I mean people believe masks protect them from Covid.. So Yeah people will believe anything. What else is new...🙄

[@hilsbroorjlch3259]

If it were a predator, this kind of behavior would have been seen in the past. It’s some kind of disturbance that effected their flight path. Either a wind sheer or maybe a dip in the magnetic field or something. Something that disorganized and disoriented the birds so much they slammed into he ground with lethal force.

[@alexandereisen3486]

Agreed, predator theory is trash

[@truthseeker4298]

5G?

[@genocyber4842]

Wtf? Just because it hasn’t been witnessed in the past doesn’t mean it can’t ever happen.

[@jennyblue42]

Has actually been seen in the past! Interesting, right? ;)

[@i..am..]

Magnetosphere is currently failing. That was a day the sun was hitting hard.

[@fableagain]

I really like when they took their time and let the expert talk at his own pace.

[@ajaxaman2308]

Actually birds follow each other in a aerodynamic shape so that they can reduce air drag , it's possible that the one bird upfront who's facing all the air drag may have gone unconscious and started falling and the rest just followed him😢

[@canmima6529]

This is definately not caused by a predator.

[@thejulien911]

I so agree... no way that is from a hawk! That is so not what would happen if that was the case.

[@LwaDay47]

5G Towers?

[@jasonvargas7564]

@@thejulien911 how would a hawk even kill several dozen birds in one move, and force hundreds of others down to the ground?

[@thejulien911]

@@jasonvargas7564 i agree!!, I have no idea

[@godfirst3li46]

@@brokenillusions244 y’all just be sayin stuff 😂 no one knows what happened su weirdo

[@SomewhereInIndiana1816]

That looks freakish and terrifying.

[@MacDaddyRico]

Research 5G...

[@chad_usa]

@@MacDaddyRico Research medication and education

[@Equinsu_Ocha69]

@@chad_usa research deez nutz

[@souhavechozndeth3483]

@@Equinsu_Ocha69 lmfao 🤣 you won

[@silent0089]

@@MacDaddyRico research clown

[@alexsantillan8685]

The local cats were pretty excited about it

[@thedarkwolfv7233]

As someone who's afraid of birds, being on that sidewalk would've been my absolute nightmare

[@JuniorHarvey-zh4jr]

I think it's more likely something effected the Earth's magnetic field, which birds use to navigate. Or 2, they were hit with some kind of micro burst of wind. Just a wildlife biologists guess. I think it's highly unlikely that any predator could cause that many birds to crash like that.

[@bulletangel]

Right ? And a hawk doesn’t go for crows it’s the other way around and when there’s that many there’s no way…

[@enz0368]

For as smart as that dude says he is, i think that not even the dumbest hawk would try that and even if so, they would never cause that recation

[@MasterVirusGaming_MVG]

The electro magnetic field is f-ed bc of 5 g

[@JesusLovesEVERYTHING]

I saw somewhere that the Earth's magnetic field has changed most recently

[@trawlins396]

@@MasterVirusGaming_MVG is that true?

[@Tye84xx]

RIP! My condolences to their friends and families!!

[@dog_e8539]

I, um, think you're in the wrong comment section.

[@seanlikes79]

🙏

[@laylax2672]

@@dog_e8539 birds have families too....

[@dog_e8539]

@@RubixCubix_ Sorry.

[@unhappyfew5679]

@@dog_e8539 these birds have families you heartless creatures

[@mdportersmail]

Soooo what brings you to the emergency room today?… a thousand birds fell on me and I’ve been uncontrollably shitting my pants ever since😐

[@kittinna5]

Actually this is not at all “pretty amazing”, it’s quite sad and worrisome. I’m really sorry for the poor birds, that was a very violent death. I’ve never seen anything like it before. :(

[@WinstonPoptart]

@Somar Chimon how would a human do that...

[@ARSENICKMUSIC]

@Somar Chimon you sound like an absolute crazy person

[@ieatcupcakes6570]

@Somar Chimon no. Just no bro..

[@alissaaaaaaa]

yea , i own birds and this broke my heart. I can't imagine walking by hundreds of dead birds :(

[@Nola50]

@@ARSENICKMUSIC no she doesn't. don't be so damn mean. that's what the news said. Not her

[@kimaparker6430]

I’m not a bird expert but definitely was not a predator. Something deadly was in a air that caused the birds to fall like that!

[@jesusisking7749]

5g tower

[@chevychelios4672]

Joel 2:30 " I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, Blood, fire and columns of smoke. The Lord is coming

[@kaitlyn8737]

Yes girl I love to see that your thinking with your own mind instead of believing what u hear always trust ur intuition 💚

[@workemail6283]

@@chevychelios4672you sound like a witch making superstitious curses to scare kids on the internet. Stop scaring the kids and keep your sad adult hidden on Facebook, it should be embarrassing for you....

[@kayyxla4171]

i honestly said that too! pretty crazy!

[@btgsyphon1722]

Who here watched “Flash Forward” back in the day and is thinking. This is why we needed a season two! 😭

[@kingchongy1712]

they play the THPS special sfx every time the birds drop… 4000 Points!!!

[@PhoenixPrime]

Feel bad for the ones that died on impact, though... :'(

[@ianmendoza8599]

lol why, their death was 10x more painless than what bacon or beef go through

[@carramrod8232]

@@ianmendoza8599 mmm. Bacon thanks for reminding me

[@prevaloir5362]

I don't

[@nothanks830]

They’re birds. Get out of your own way

[@echo997]

same ;(

[@blocksssssss3640]

“It is pretty amazing!” “That it is 😇😃” - excuse me? That was horrible lmao

[@tagumcity6301]

True. Hahaha

[@bloop.5467]

I know, right? Didn't a bunch of them die?

[@4ourty5ive]

Amazing does not mean good, it means somebody is amazed. I can be amazed sometimes how bad my kid is. Although he did have too much of a smile in his actual voice when he said it… Dang

[@sergicalcantara]

It was definitely amazing. Not bc they died but bc of how it happened. That’s almost never seen. It was a sight to see.

[@tagumcity6301]

@@sergicalcantara i think you forgot that she smiled at the ending and observe their voices. Something that they're happy.

[@tren380]

Look at her smile at the end of all the death that just happened...chilling.

[@orz_Remmo46]

When your group avoid a single predator and loses a hundred of your friend. **task successfully failed**

[@cartooncatlover5121]

Rip to the little birdies that did not get back up again. 😢💔

[@theexclusivehellobois]

😭😭

[@singmysongsong9723]

Humans always have a reason to something they don't know,it only the birds that can tell their story.

[@JasmineThanai]

Lol ! Bird FLU 😷 HAS returned!!!!!

[@mediaisthevirus]

@@JasmineThanai when's giraffe flu coming?

[@IsisNFriends]

Lol!!!!!!!!!!!! Only the birds and God can tell their story

[@MRakshay-fb2mu]

Everybody is an expert nowdays

[@Yamn_]

Hello, i just contacted a reporter He's searching one of the birds who witnessed the scene to make an interview

[@SleepyLongRiver-jd2xb]

It's so sad how many don't get back up :(

[@TheADzioba]

That's quite a hawkish response to a predator.

[@christineunique3460]

“It’s pretty amazing” after literally stating that a lot of those birds passed away..💀

[@orbitalpudding1946]

That it is~

[@amish5924]

It's mesmerizing

[@prevaloir5362]

it is tbh

[@cnonrjbg]

At least the feral cats will have something to eat

[@a.j.kaastra1317]

1. This is NOT caused by a hawk! It has never been seen before. 2. Some people in the comment section need to realize awesome doesn't mean "cool".

[@skyyy710]

Well what does awesome mean then

[@saadamahmoud8108]

@@skyyy710 I think it might also mean « awe-some »

[@PlumberWRX]

You don't think in all of time there has ever been a time whe. A massive flock of birds hit the ground and went back up. This is not the first time libtard

[@skyyy710]

@@saadamahmoud8108 awe some bird acting crazy awesome

[@handsomelarsandhisfabulousjars]

Awesome originally meant something closer to awful. As in something that inspires awe. It can be positive or negative

[@UOAPlays]

lmao I love the Tony Hawk special move sound effect they put in every time they show the birds falling

[@merllhagard6799]

They saw a flock of mexico state patrol birds. Most of the blackbirds had felony warrants.

[@xOrionNebula2708]

lol wait what

[@yamchayaku]

I've seen this several times. They're merely flying along with the group like how sheep would follow each other without knowing where they're going. They just go with the flow. Some of the maneuvers involve sharp dives. Obviously if you're flying in a pretty dense flock, you're not going to be able to clearly see what's ahead of you, this is what caused some of the birds to smack into the pavement and die. Imagine you're running in a dense crowd headed towards a cliff. The people at the front will see the cliff and move aside, but the people in the middle will not be so lucky and end up falling off by not reacting fast enough, and/or by being pushed off by an equally oblivious group behind them..

[@uthikoloshe]

Thank you for saving me from typing this exact thing.

[@joseph906]

Funny how experts just closes the case.

[@SneetchDreams]

What’s even worse is the people in the middle and back push the front ones over to. This happens in formation runs all the time lol

[@plateshutoverlock]

After what happened at Astroworld, I avoid dense crowds like the plague. "Fall off a cliff"..more like compressive asphyxiation or trampled to death before you even get to the cliff

[@bubbagumbroussard2981]

That makes perfect sense

[@vipervenom8215]

It wasn't due to a predator, it was due to toxic chemicals and fumes, they did toxicology tests on the birds and came back positive for toxic chemicals, hard to believe a predator could do something like this

[@danger5489]

They were mass dumped from a ufo after being infected with a virus to spread. Keep up with it and I bet there is something new in Mexico disease wise.

[@indigenousaquarian3112]

Toxic chemicals probably came from the chemtrails in the sky but 5g towers & electromagnetic frequencies could also cause this

[@indigenousaquarian3112]

@@danger5489 I probably would've believed that if you didn't mention UFO lol

[@vipervenom8215]

@@danger5489 it's also toxic fumes from bidens government issued crack pipes lmao

[@MIGITO]

Sources "trust me bro"

[@JumbleTasteSpinning]

You can see the moment of the electric shock. Wow.

[@hummingbird9149]

There's an electricity pole right there where they drop, so yeah my guess is electricution and the proximity of each bird to the other caused it to arch throughout the flock.

[@popzu7832]

Government: sorry my remote died

[@pdphoenix1993]

It's not amazing , it's heartbreaking. 🥺

[@chocolatechick729]

I know what is wrong with these news people.

[@mycocorleone4771]

You realize "amazing" doesnt mean "good" 🤦🏽‍♂️ It means "causing great surprise and wonder"

[@mycocorleone4771]

@@chocolatechick729 amazing doesnt mean good just because thats the only way you know how to use it 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@hanae.a5909]

@@mycocorleone4771 fr

[@unapoligeticllyisrael2066]

Not really!! It's prophecy!!

[@battlehenge4]

I’m sure all stray animals had a feast that day.

[@PokeGamer025]

Inside Edition is so out of topics to cover they’re doing this 💀

[@kswaes]

that behavior is pretty off ngl

[@pearlwhite3009]

Wow! That reminds me of "The Birds," a Hitchcock movie. As a kid, my family watched it together on a Saturday night. When we got up to go to church the next morning, blackbirds were on the power lines and all in our yard. Freaks me out to this day. 😳

[@trawlins396]

Definitely reminds me of The Birds.

[@MrTruckerf]

That movie scared me pretty bad when I was an 8 year old kid in 1963. I never watched it again.

[@Nat189]

I just watched that movie last year in my film class and this totally reminded me of it.

[@zorro675]

⚠️WARNING⚠️ Jesus Christ is coming back! Look for God, believe in the Gospel, give your life to Jesus and repent of your sins before it's too late!

[@rongsmith4631]

The Devil is near

[@marshmallowwithteeth2209]

“Lots were killed on impact “ - 😞 “It’s pretty amazing “ - 🤩

[@nic3guy798]

Yeh wtf

[@stanbalo]

Yes very weird comment...amazing is not the word

[@manakatt]

Then the, "that it is" with that smile like what the actual 😧

[@jaimerafaelledesma3488]

I'd like the reporter to try falling from the sky and not surviving, I'm sure it will be pretty amazing

[@_JL82]

@@jaimerafaelledesma3488 lmaooo

[@ThZuao]

Predator was out to catch one or two, ended up with a whole feast. Must have invited all the cats in the neighborhood.

[@MaxKasai-zm5mz]

hopefully its not like the old famous "The Birds" horror movie lol

[@samuelssamura6532]

The reporter said “it’s Pretty Amazing”. I’m like What… Seriously.. this is scary and some birds even died.

[@hoover1150]

And

[@spilledmilk4801]

I mean it is in fact pretty Amazing.

[@jasonlarsen4945]

What exactly do you think the word amazing means?

[@mycocorleone4771]

Amazing doesnt mean good just because thats the only way you know how to use it 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@tonywilliams1771]

Well if the wording wasn't unusual. Her expression was definitely odd considering the story.

[@susanlbk]

Something definitely messed up their GPS and I don't think it was a predator.

[@splitdragon3004]

Birds don’t work like that.

[@susanlbk]

@@splitdragon3004Birds don't work like what? Look up something called "Electrosmog" in regards to migratory birds.

[@Regal1]

My guess is 5G waves. It's been happening everywhere.

[@lapislazuli06]

Yeah, I'm not sure I buy that many birds were chased by a predator, I mean the way they fell...

[@godschild5587]

A call for an uprising covered this. Probably 5g

[@MajSolo]

The hawk is real happy now. All you can eat buffet.

[@Reyvion]

This is the kind of thing that got people in the 1500's thinking the end was near

[@tatnith3596]

Imagine walking down the road, and then a swarm of bird just fell on you

[@TheWalkingRed]

I'd imagine the impact would be surprisingly violent. Death by a thousand beak cuts

[@maynard3legs]

My wildest dream comes true.

[@wishywashy1153]

*flock

[@alexflowers97]

It happened to my auntie Delsy in 1922 San Diego

[@ruijua]

@@alexflowers97whaaaatt… you can just drop that and walk off… What happened?

[@selomegirma7151]

A hawk or a falcon has the capability to have two hundred birds “free fall”?! That’s ridiculous.

[@unityrichardson9131]

Chemtrailz

[@nimmo9306]

They just flew down

[@zaywop5978]

they probably get stuck focusing on the one in front of them that a split second direction change is fatal

[@hazelgoodshepherd9315]

@@unityrichardson9131 Correct, coupled with The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP

[@walterwhite7925]

must’ve been a programming error, gonna ask the devs if they’re gonna fix this in the patch notes

[@Hybridknfgrowchannel]

They appear to be suddenly thrusted towards the ground. Fascinating

[@cmm3338]

Looks like a potential microburst, which is a strong downdraft in a specific location. Well known in aviation.

[@The-Beyonder]

Way more plausible than a "predator" lmao some expert this guy is

[@mikediesel928]

RIP million birds fall down

[@peppi0304]

looks like a pretty calm day. No indication of downdraft, microburst or turbulence.

[@Alteori]

I just wrote that too after finding out what they were yesterday. Definitely looks so

[@AK-jt7kh]

Thanks. That’s a lot more believable than the predator idea 😅

[@iSeeCorpses]

Excuse me? No way a predator could cause something like that

[@Mellow84]

CIA microwave energy weapon

[@neggas-]

ah yes the OG bird experts in the comments

[@ultra4254]

They hit a cloaked aircraft... trust me bro

[@L0rdsWarr10r]

Yeah they group each other to avoid predators

[@maryannegautier]

It was the fivegee hawk

[@123lorajane321]

I've seen another video of so many birds sitting on a power line and the weight of them caused it to break and they all blew up. This looks like that, and there will no doubt be a power line above cam height.

[@goku445]

they were not sitting at all.

[@leavingsoonduetocensorship3453]

There is a literal airburst pushing them down with obvious force wtf...

[@aimlessparasite1289]

It happens with starlings when they group up really big. The back half of the flock cant see through the flock so the first half turns out of the dive and the second half doesn't have enough time or room to pull up.

[@zorro675]

⚠️WARNING⚠️ Jesus Christ is coming back! Look for God, believe in the Gospel, give your life to Jesus and repent of your sins before it's too late!

[@wasntme9578]

This is what I was looking for. Some sanity. The predator theory is asinine. A hawk? What did he round up all the birds first? The concentration of birds did not come close to confirming that conclusion. Sorry about the c's. Unintentional. Your theory makes sense. I think their expert should have thought about it a little more.

[@fish-kj1dg]

@@zorro675 repent my ballsack

[@TwitchPrimer]

@@zorro675 Amen

[@eddyeffy]

No, the leader of the flock was trying to impress his girlfriend and got his buddies killed

[@elenaperales5411]

This is quite worrisome though if animals start acting strange out of the ordinary something might be going on with the world

[@MarvelGamer2023]

Jesus will return soon. Signs of the end.

[@abullard8409]

@@MarvelGamer2023 Yes

[@cevirthek262]

What would be 'going on with the world'? We don't need animals "acting strange" to know about climate change. So what could it be? There could be many explanations for this, sometimes some birds flock up too big and lose direction, it may have been an electric wire, a predator, etc.

[@jaybruno3571]

@@MarvelGamer2023 lolololololololololololololololololololololololololol

[@iMsOiNsO]

Just because this was recorded doesn’t mean it’s just happening. You do realize camera footage hasn’t always been around right? This isn’t a plague it has happened before

[@OutyMan]

I agree with his assessment. This is similar to crowd crush. It was mob panic. Most didn't even see the actual threat and followed the hysteria.

[@N0phillter]

Some kind of radio wave or electric wave effected them or maybe even a sound wave to them something similar to a dog whistle for all the dogs

[@michaelprivette9847]

Damn that hawk had the best hunting score of all time that day, he can feed his great great grandchildren

[@madelaki]

bro used the grenade launcher and got a kill streak

[@thebosstex1172]

I mean seriously. A hawk attack? There’s no way this could have been the result of a hawk attack! Either the “expert” is joking around with us, or he was just being an idiot or something!

[@kitsugran]

The Hawk with 300 confirmed kills... oh no...

[@Veeeegan95]

This is sooo sad! The poor birds! RIP to all the birdies that didn’t make it and I hope that all the ones that have injuries make full recoveries. 🥺

[@krazeelety]

Ikr how can they say it's amazing?

[@ES11777]

I love good people like you ❤️ Have a great day

[@cjeff99]

@@krazeelety Amazing isn’t necessarily a positive thing. It just means something was worthy of causing you to be surprised or astonished. That many birds falling out the sky like that would definitely leave most people amazed

[@krazeelety]

@@cjeff99 true, my apologies.

[@Furnishabl]

i hope someone gets a good meal out of these birds :(

[@theultimatespider-websling3950]

How did that happen

[@MONKeEeYboi]

Birds really will do that to avoid a predator.

[@lovelyA933]

This happened near where I live. A couple of years ago the same thing happened right outside my house. It was very sad to see all the tiny birds on the ground. Edit: damn I wasn't expecting all the angry people in the replies. This happened near a small city called Rubio that is minutes away from my hometown of Cuauhtémoc, in the state of Chihuahua, México. A similar event happened right outside my house a couple of years ago. The same type of bird too, they migrate from Canada in the winter. No one really knows why it happened, but some say it was due to the smog. I kind of agree with Angeline in the comments though, about it being a magnetic anomaly. Weird stuff happens around here.

[@hassanbeydoun2460]

The _same_ thing years ago? Same amount of birds? 😳 You guys gotta inspect the area! What is going on!

[@mattyp7582]

It happened near where you live but right outside your house? Confusing

[@mikivanduyn9630]

@@mattyp7582 maybe read again...🤭🤭🤭

[@ThePrimeLine]

@@mattyp7582 reading is fundamental

[@tombreault1096]

@@mattyp7582 read it again, but slower

[@ValensBellator]

That’s crazy!! Could it be some sort of air pocket or weird gust of wind? I doubt the “toxic air” bit given how quickly they recovered.

[@xenomorphlover]

Looks like wind indeed..

[@fernandoerives3245]

What about those two helicopters that fell out of the sky on the same weekend......one in Los Angeles and one in Miami........wouldn't doubt if this is all related.

[@xenomorphlover]

@@fernandoerives3245 they fell of the sky? Wtf

[@orbitron2330]

@@fernandoerives3245 that never happened

[@fernandoerives3245]

@@orbitron2330 either your plain ignorant or just a fool. It's literally in the news.............

[@AstroRVe]

"guys i think i see a huge spaceship" The random scientist guy "its obviously a weather balloon"

[@microcosms2420]

My bet: something caused the birds to fly very close together in a massive clump and drove them closer to the ground. But because of their speed, and close proximity to each other, most of them did not see the ground before it was too late. Either they're in some crazed mating frenzy or behavioral anomaly, or that was a really smart hawk/s

[@angelinemusuwika]

This is so heartbreaking.

[@Itsallanillusion30]

How?

[@nate-the-fate6584]

What ever ya say snowflake 😂

[@CrispyPillow6]

??

[@Rose-ff3ky]

because a lot of those poor birds died 😢

[@stephanieann6622]

@@nate-the-fate6584 Dude grow up. Youre how old? Calling someone a snow flake for having empathy for animals that died on impact because they were in danger is not neing a snowflake its being a decent human being.