Staten Island Mystery :: NIN

Witnesses described the events during the afternoon of December 21, 2007 “as something from a movie” – birds dropping from the sky in mid-flight over a small area on Staten Island, most of them dying before hitting the ground. Birds that did not die in mid-flight reportedly “landed, lied on the ground, flapped and died.” The most recent estimates of dead birds currently range between 50 and 75, with the majority of the birds being Purple Martins. Most of the birds dropped from flight within the Port Regalle development near the intersection of Wiman Avenue and Tennyson Drive, on the southeastern shore of Staten Island.

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