Case file · High strangeness
Jatinga, the valley where birds 'commit suicide'
On foggy, moonless autumn nights in Jatinga, Assam, disoriented birds fly into villagers' lights and are killed; naturalist E. P. Gee made it famous in 'The Wild Life of India' (1964).
1964 CE · 25.12, 93.03 · status: explained
The sceptical view
Ornithologists of the Zoological Survey of India found mostly young, local birds displaced by monsoon winds and drawn by lights in fog. It is a known light-attraction effect, not suicide.