We were leading a DFO trip to the raptor alley west of DIA, when we came upon a curious sight. We saw a blob hanging from a wire, and when we looked carefully with binoculars it was a bird hanging by its locked claws!
It seems to be a starling with its bright yellow pointed bill facing right. Is that clotted blood at the back of its head?
We've never seen such a thing, and wondered how it had died.
It couldn't have been electrocuted, as it would have needed to touch another wire or the ground.
If it had been predated upon by a raptor, say, it would have been taken away to be eaten on a perch. There was no other wire close by.
Has anyone seen anything like this and does anyone have any reasonable explanation for this.
Google AI suggested avian 'flu as a possibility.
Ajit and Liza Antony
Central Park, Denver.
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