Decoding the Bird-Death Maps

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
2 min readJan 6, 2011

Here’s a visual representation of all the places birds have died en masse in the past couple days. We’re basically living the opening montage of a movie about the apocalypse at this point. But what does it all mean? Well, if you zoom in and draw lines from each of the little e-pegs, you can see the birds are trying to tell us something.

Asia and Australia should expect a giant bat, or some kind of flying devil.

Europe can look forward to a sideways ghost.

And at home we can be on the lookout for a witch with a knife.

Goodbye.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com