Thanks to TheTandyMan for the heads up!

Well, at least the Mysterious Romanian Bird death was solved.

Turns out that the hundreds of birds that were found dead in the outskirts of Constanta, eastern Romania, died to alcohol poisoning by ingesting the leftover grapes from a wine-making process. A necropsy revealed the high alcohol volume in their system.

My guess is that soon, most of these bird death mysteries will be solved as the toxicology reports come back from the lab. I’ve been reading a lot on what has been happening all over the world, and many scientist are saying that there is nothing unusual about these mysterious animal deaths. It happens all the time. The only difference is that the media got wind of it.

Sounds about right.

Full source: BBC News

Residents of Constanta in eastern Romania found dozens of dead starlings on the outskirts of the city on Saturday.

They alerted authorities, fearing the birds had died from avian flu.

But local veterinary officials decided the starlings had died after eating grape ‘marc’ – the leftovers from the wine-making process.

The head of the local sanitary and veterinary authority, Dvsva, told news agency Agerpres that analysis of the starlings’ gizzards showed they had died from alcohol poisoning.

There have been a number of unexplained mass bird deaths recently in several countries, including the United States and Sweden.

Fireworks were blamed for the deaths of thousands of red-winged blackbirds in Arkansas, while in Sweden officials believe almost 100 jackdaws found dead in the centre of a town had simply been run over.