Wild birds have been falling out of the sky above Missouri and Kansas amid a suspected spike in avian influenza, according to reports.
Some hundreds of the migratory birds, mainly geese, fell dead in mid-flight above Kansas City, Missouri, according to KMBC News.
The dead wild birds number in thousands across the State of Kansas — especially in the vicinity of reservoirs, KSN-TV reported. Many of the birds could be asymptomatic.
“It just blew up last week. I got four calls in one hour,” Tyler Offenbacker of Wildlife Control, a for-profit animal control operation in Missouri, told KMBC. “It’s in our nature to want to help a wounded animal, but you don’t want to be picking animals up.”
“It can be a shocking sight … those infected birds get fatigued and can fall from the sky,” Tom Bidrowski, a biologist at the Kansas Department of Wildlife, said. (RELATED:…
