Over A Thousand Birds Have Died In One Missouri Town Leaving Officials Baffled

More than 1,000 birds were found dead near a Missouri town on Monday and officials want to know what happened. The Missouri Department of Conservation received reports of large numbers of dead birds found near Sikeston and went to investigate, the city shared in a Facebook post written by conservation agent Andrew Mothershead.

Sikeston is located in southeast Missouri roughly 34 miles south of Cape Girardeau. Mothershead and biologist Kevin Brunke found more than 1,000 dead birds — red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and European starlings — in fields and neighborhoods near Wakefield Road, the post said. They also found several injured birds in vegetation near the roadway. -Full Report