Chuck Darwin<p>Residents of Richmond, a city on the east side of San Francisco Bay, are growing increasingly concerned about a string of mysterious<br>—and often violent—bird deaths that seem to have no obvious explanation.</p><p>The deaths all seem to follow a similar pattern: <br>After a bird lands on a specific stretch of power line, <br>residents hear a loud popping sound, akin to a firecracker, reports KGO-TV’s Dion Lim. </p><p>Then, they see the creature’s body fall to the pavement. </p><p>A doorbell camera captured one of the strange fatalities on video, too.</p><p>The inexplicable incidents have killed mourning doves, European starlings, crows and other common backyard species.</p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cj6Lc1nNrM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cj6Lc1n</span><span class="invisible">NrM</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RichmondCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RichmondCA</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/BirdDeaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BirdDeaths</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/birds-are-dying-mysterious-violent-deaths-in-this-northern-california-neighborhood-and-no-one-can-explain-why-180986623/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/</span><span class="invisible">birds-are-dying-mysterious-violent-deaths-in-this-northern-california-neighborhood-and-no-one-can-explain-why-180986623/</span></a></p>