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Mystery behind Hitchcock's Birds is solved at last
Scientists link eerie avian suicides of 1961, which inspired cinema classic, to poison in the food chain
Guy Adams
Los Angeles
Thursday 29 December 2011
It has taken 50 years, rather than the shorter running time of one of his famous horror films, but Alfred Hitchcock's most enduring whodunit appears to have finally been solved.
Scientists at Louisiana State University claim to have discovered why thousands of seagulls began killing themselves along the coast of northern California in the summer of 1961.
The mysterious avian deaths, in which many of the birds flew, Kamikaze-style, into houses along the Monterey Bay shore, south of San Francisco, were cited as one of the major inspirations for Hitchcock's 1963 film The Birds.
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