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The birds are the survivors of a foamy slime and had been flown to the International Bird Rescue Center in Fairfield to be cleaned.
Once a bird gets into the foam, it becomes vulnerable to hypothermia.
Thousands of birds died.
As for the killer foam? A federal wildlife lab is trying to determine the cause. It has since diminished as mysteriously as it had formed.
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