Emotion in his voice, Diego comments on his discovery of hundreds of dead sparrows in the streets of Rome after New Year's Eve.
“It's incredible, it gives me all my joy!
Look how many there are!
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The video posted by this Romain on YouTube is worthy of a horror film: the birds are scattered on the ground and lie several hundred meters of asphalt.
The Italian capital celebrated the transition to the new year with thousands of fireworks fired on the night of December 31, 2020 to January 1, 2021.
According to Frédéric Jiguet, the birds would have been disoriented by this explosive tradition. The ornithologist from the National Museum of Natural History explains the phenomenon and recalls that this phenomenon of bird falls is not a first in the world.
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