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Police are looking in to whether this is the second time that hundreds of birds have died all together in exactly the same place after 300 starlings were found dead on Anglesey .

The birds were found on Tuesday evening near Llyn Llynwen, Bodedern by Hannah Stevens who said she had seen the birds in murmuration just an hour before they were found dead in the road.

The birds are all within 100 yards of each other with some in the hedges, but none landed in the fields either side of the road.

Officers have been left puzzled by the incident and say that they are "still scratching their heads" trying to work out what happened.

Several of the birds have now been sent away for toxicology tests and a postmortem to determine how they died.

Rob Taylor, Team Manager for North Wales Police's Rural Crime Team has now said that although it is still a "complete mystery" what happened to the birds they have heard that this is not the first time something like this has happened in that area.

(Image: Dafydd Edwards)

Mr Taylor said: "I just want to give an update in regards to the incident in Anglesey in Bodedern involving the starlings being found on a roadway dead in one area, about 300 of them.

"I have to say at this present time it is an absolute and complete mystery to us.

"We've done all of the necessary checks and spoken to witnesses and we're trying to get to the bottom of it, however we are still scratching our heads in regards to it.

"There's a few people who have come forward telling different stories in regards to it and we're just trying to tie up those pieces now to get the accurate facts.

"We've also sent some of the birds off for a toxicology and postmortem so I'm hoping we can get a result on that pretty soon but I would be very surprised if 300 died in one area without any of them being in the surrounding fields.

"We've also been on Google as well and have checked for this and have found that this phenomenon has happened in Rome previously and has also happened in various areas of the UK as well.

"It's one of those strange ones.

(Image: Dafydd Edwards)

"We know the birds were in murmuration before this incident and we're just trying to firm up exactly what has actually occurred.

"If anyone has an ideas or theories or has any previous experience of this or come across it, get in touch.

"We're hearing one story that it happened in exactly the same place many, many years ago so we're just trying to confirm that as well.

"It's a complete mystery to us and we haven't got a clue at this present time what's occurred but hopefully we'll get to the bottom of it."

A spokesperson for the Animal and Plant Health Agency said: “We received reports of a large number of dead starlings yesterday evening and are investigating possible causes.”

A Welsh Government spokesperson said that they are aware of the incident but that it would be "unwise to speculate further at this stage."