End of the world? Birds fall out of the sky
IT could be the end of the world or it could be an unfortunate accident as hundreds of starlings were pictured dead in a road.
The scenes were reminiscent of Hitchcock's The Birds.
The bizarre attack came as the huge swarm of feathered fiends were flying in quickly and changing formation above the highway.
"My girlfriend said she saw the birds flying very low towards us. Suddenly they just flew straight into our car," said stunned driver Andreas Chiste.
"It was like something from the movie, The Birds. It was as if they meant to hit them," added one fellow motorist.
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It was gruesome. They were stuck to the car and in the radiator grille and splattered all over the road
As Andreas sped down the motorway in Sattledt, Austria, experts reckon the birds hit his Skoda with a combined impact of close to 90 mph.
"It was gruesome. They were stuck to the car and in the radiator grille and splattered all over the road," explained Andreas.
Wildlife experts say that starlings perform their extraordinary acrobatics as a way of avoiding predators, like birds of prey.
"They might simply have made a wrong turn as part of a pattern or seen their reflection in the windscreen and thought they were looking at another part of the flock," said one, speaking to the Austrian Times.