According to Kompanje, the wildest stories are always circulating in these kinds of incidents. “This time there was speculation about bird flu, but that statement is incorrect. Avian flu occurs in waterfowl, not starlings. A group of birds that die en masse happens every now and then and it happens all over the world,” he says in Trouw.
Scientist debunks ‘wild stories’ about dead starlings on the A2
