More Dead Birds

Are all these birds falling from the sky a related incidence? Here is the headline:

Mystery of mass animal death epidemic deepens after 8,000 turtle doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1344913/Animal-death-mystery-8k-turtle-doves-fall-dead-Italy-blue-stain-beaks.html#ixzz1AUDWTXxC

Is this all "normal" and we are just now trying to connect dots and make it something that it isn't....or is the earth continuing to groan as it longs for the Millennium?