Mystery in Anglesey after hundreds of birds found dead on country lane

Police are investigating after hundreds of birds were found dead on a country line in north Wales.

A total of 225 dead starlings were found littered across the road near Bodedern, Anglesey, on Wednesday afternoon, with “many others” scattered along a hedge by the side of the road.

Local resident Hannah Stevens spotted the birds and said she thought they were eating something from the road shortly before they died.

Her partner Dafydd Edwards, 41, went to film the scene. He told told MailOnline: “There’s easily more than 300 of them. I counted 150 last night but I gave up as there’s just hundreds of them littered everywhere.

"It’s as if they just dropped dead from the sky."

Detectives have described the “very strange” deaths as a mystery and have called on the Government's Animal & Plant Health Agency to examine the birds’ remains.

Pc Dewi Evans, of North Wales Police's rural crime team, wrote in a Twitter post: "Many of you will have seen on social media a video going around of an incident on Anglesey where numerous starling have been killed, many starlings.

"We don't know how it has happened.

"There are approximately 225 dead starling on the road itself and many others along the hedge on either side of the road. No starling apparent in the fields on either side which is very strange.

"So we have got officers now from the Animal & Plant Health Agency who are going to seize some of these starlings with a view to having them examined, looking for poison for example or looking for any other thing that might have killed these animals."

Police are appealing for information about the incident which they say happened at about 3.40pm on Tuesday.