UPDATE: News from the Facilities Operations and the Department of Landscape reports that “the birds are hitting the glass of the windows in some areas of the building. Apparently, they think it is an open area and they hit the glass in their attempt to enter the building.”
Orange County Animal Services and the local office of Fish and Wildlife Services said that this is a very common situation around buildings with glass windows, especially in the nesting season of some species of birds.
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Several birds were found dead outside of the music building at the Performing Arts Center on UCF’s campus. A student found about seven dead birds while walking through and reported the situation to KnightNews.com.
The student, who told us the birds had no apparent physical trauma, was worried an environmental factor could have caused the deaths. (See the video the student shot himself and sent us, below.)
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“Me and my friend were just walking here and were afraid that we could have been contaminated with something in the case that there is some kind of hazard or toxin,” the student said.
KnightNews.com contacted UCF’s Environmental Health & Safety Coordinator who said that UCF does not believe, based on initial information, that there is any threat to the UCF community.
“After talking with some of the departments in Facilities and Safety, the preliminary information we have is suggesting that the reason for the death of the birds is not related to an unsafe situation that could affect the UCF Community,” Noel Crespo told KnightNews.com.
YouReport Video Sent by Student who Told us About Birds
The mystery still remains however, as to what caused these birds to die.
“I am still in the process of gathering information before getting to a final conclusion,” Crespo added.
We will continue to follow this matter and report any other mysterious animal deaths around campus.
KnightNews.com is currently checking into additional tips of bird deaths elsewhere on campus viewers sent us after this story broke.
If UCF can find out what caused these birds to die, KnightNews.com will let you know.
Below are pictures sent into us from the student:
