Bookmaker offers odds on birds falling from sky

The UK has been installed as the bookies 2/1 favourite to report the next unexplained mass bird death with Ireland the 4/1 second favourite.

With reports of 50 dead jackdaws found on city streets in Sweden, neighbouring Finland is considered a 6/1 shot by Paddy Power with both Australia and Indonesia sharing the same odds of 10/1.

In a similar vein Paddy Power are also taking bets on the next marine life to suffer a similar fate to the thousands of dead fish which have recently washed up along coastlines in New Zealand, America and Brazil. The jellyfish has been installed as the 6/4 favourite ahead of the 3/1 starfish and turtles at 8/1.??

Ken Robertson from Paddy Power said "With no sign of these inexplicable mass animal deaths abating the question everyone is pondering is; where next?"