where do birds go to die

[big yankee]

How is it that you never seem to come across dead birds?

[woofgang]

because various vertebrate and invertebrate carrion eaters get there first!

[bernardo]

But I do come across dead birds. I have done on a number of occasions (not very often though). Therefore the question is based on a false premise.

[Phantaxus]

my back garden, thanks to my cat!

[answerbok]

where dead birds go; http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/silphid.htm

[drochit]

Here's a link to a similar question asked before on answerbank.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/DisplayAnswers.go?q
uestion_id=22895&category_id=18&index=0 But perhaps the answer is that you need to get out more. I see lots of dead birds, and other animals, because I spend a lot of time walking both in town and country.

[quattro]

i've always wondered that too perhaps when we come accross a dead animal it has usually been killed rather than died of natural causes and the usual carrion eaters don't fancy eating something that has died in an unnatural way in case they get diseased or something.Or maybe the animal has a feeling that it is going to die and 'crawls away and dies' the same feeling we get if we've had a skinful !! It does remind you of that old question Where do elephants go when they die?