# Dead Birds **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 19, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897 "2000-03-19T07:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mellonhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@mellonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mellonhead)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897/1 "2000-03-19T07:26:00Z")
Why aren’t there more dead birds lying around? There are a lot of birds in the world…and they have relatively short life-spans compared to humans. Why don’t we just see plies of pidgeons, robins, sparrows, crows, etc lying in the backyards, forrests, highways, and fields of America - or the world? I realize that some of the dead birds can be taken care of by city sanitation, stray animals, preditors, scavengers, and decomposition - but they don’t rot that fast, do they? Where the hell do all the bodies go? ---
**Author:** ![billehunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897/2 "2000-03-19T07:28:00Z")
Check [this](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_083.html) out. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897/3 "2000-03-19T07:31:00Z")
There is a secret unnamed section of the Federal budget which pays for dead bird sanitation. That’s what all the black helicopters are carrying: bird carcasses. ---
**Author:** ![Jois](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@Jois](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jois)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897/4 "2000-03-19T09:22:00Z")
One of my dogs tries to sneak into the house with a dead bird in her mouth now and then. But you can tell what’s going on beause she prances… The bird are always cold, stiff and long dead; I’m sure she’s no stalker never mind catcher. Thanks, Cecil, I’m happy to know nature will take care of the ones she doesn’t find. * * * Are you driving with your eyes open or are you using The Force? - A. Foley ---
**Author:** ![mellonhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@mellonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mellonhead)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897/5 "2000-03-20T06:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by billehunt: > **Check [this](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_083.html) out.** thanks bille. - that was helpful ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897/6 "2000-03-19T21:20:00Z")
Apparently the gummint dead bird patrol doesn’t make it to rural Arizona. The overpass at the Marana exit of I-10 is littered with dead pigeons. My dog, a female American Eskimo about ten years old, frequently catches and kills doves and wrens. ---
**Author:** ![PimpJilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@PimpJilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PimpJilly)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897/7 "2000-03-20T23:37:00Z")
All the dead birds get eaten by Homeless people… Havn’t you ever seen the Homeless bunched together around a trashcan, roasting dead pigeons? But, for real, Cecil says they hole up in the ironwork underneath viaducts. I’m wondering why you’re on Cecil’s webpage, and didn’t look for the answer among the archives… it’s there. ---
**Author:** ![mellonhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@mellonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mellonhead)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-birds/8897/8 "2000-03-21T02:11:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by PimpJilly: > **All the dead birds get eaten by Homeless people… Havn’t you ever seen the Homeless bunched together around a trashcan, roasting dead pigeons? But, for real, Cecil says they hole up in the ironwork underneath viaducts. I’m wondering why you’re on Cecil’s webpage, and didn’t look for the answer among the archives… it’s there.**