Boston city officials were confused to figure out the mystery on Friday after a large flock of songbirds suddenly fell from the sky in one of the city’s neighborhoods.
City officials told that 47 sick grackles were found on Thursday in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood. Fifteen of the birds ultimately died there.
The Animal Rescue League of Boston said that it went to the neighborhood after residents reported that the birds were falling from the sky and a sick cat.
It was reported that two cats had gotten sick and that both were later euthanized.
According to the officials, the dead birds will be sent to Tufts University for testing. The birds may have gotten sick after ingesting a pest-control poison.
The Boston Herald interviewed Willien Pugh, the owner of one of the euthanized cats, Sally B. Pugh said, “My sister fed her. 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.”
By Prakriti Neogi
