Boston city
officials were grappling with a bizarre mystery Friday after a large flock of
songbirds suddenly fell from the sky in one of the city’s neighborhoods.
City officials
told Fox25 Boston that 47 sick grackles were found Thursday in the city’s
Dorchester neighborhood.
Fifteen of the
birds ultimately died.
The Animal
Rescue League of Boston says it went to the neighborhood after residents
reported birds falling from the sky and a sick cat.
Fox 25
reported that two cats had gotten sick and that both were later euthanized.
The dead birds
will be sent to Tufts University for testing.
The birds may
have gotten sick after ingesting a pest-control poison, the station reported.
The Boston Herald interviewed Willien
Pugh, the owner of one of the euthanized cats, Sally B.
“My sister fed
her,” Pugh said. “Then like at 8:30 she came to the door and told me Sally was
laying there at the back door, and that was it. Nobody knows who did it or
nothing.”
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