The flock of yellow headed blackbirds were migrating south when they suddenly and simultaneously died above the northern city of Chihuahua.

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Feb. 15, 2022, 9:00 AM PST

ByDavid K. Li

Asecurity camera capturedthe moment when scores of birds suddenly fell from the sky and died northern Mexico.

Thevideo showeda flock ofyellow headed blackbirdshitting the pavement en masse in Chihuahua, about 230 miles south of El Paso, Texas. Local mediareports the incident happened last week.

While many of the birds who were headed south from Canada — where they had spent the winter — recovered from the fall and flew away, dozens of them were dead and did not move.

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