Well, I just saw the old lady trying to feed a sick pigeon. I advised her that I've seen the birds dying and that I suspect a disease. Other neighbours came and informed me that 15 pigeons keeled over this morning after eating some rice that somebody had put out, so they suspect poison.
Does anyone know how bird flu manifests in birds? Is it a sudden death? Clearly the sick bird the old lady is trying to minister to has not died suddenly, but the rest of the flock appear to have kicked the bucket all this morning. Mind you, they might all have been equally sick and that they had just eaten before they died may be a coincidence.
At this stage I see evidence for a disease, but also for poison.