It’s raining.........dead birds?

What could be causing dead birds to be dropping out of the sky on two opposite sides of the world?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=427997&in_page_id=1811

Iwata san came over this evening, and we had a bit of an Australian food tasting thing happening. She really liked vegemite, so I offered her one of the mini-size bottles that I had brought back. She wanted to have her husband try it.

It is SO cold. This broken heater is a huge inconvenience…. I don't think I will survive much longer without a heater.