Right out of a horror movie! Crows invade Walmart parking lot as shoppers watch in amazement
- Frightening footage shows hundreds of crows gathering at a car park in Texas
- The crows are perched on top of cars and are unfazed by shoppers nearby
- The spectacle was reminiscent of scenes from the horror movie ‘The Birds’
Scary footage shows hundreds of crows gathering at a car park in Texas in scenes reminiscent of a horror movie.
Video was posted of the crows perched on tops of several cars outside a Walmart store in Houston, Texas.
The rare sighting happened on December 14 and footage was posted with the caption: ‘As temperatures dropped into the freezing digits, tens of thousands of crows congregate and tailgate at a Wal-Mart carpark. They are all over the place.’
Scary footage shows hundreds of crows gathering at a car park of a Walmart store in Texas
In it the man taking the video can be heard saying: ‘Car washes will make some money now. They’re on every car.
The crows, which are familiar over much of the continent, can be heard cawing loudly and seem to be unfazed by people nearby.
The crows can be seen perched on top of shopping trolleys, cars and on the ground
The man who posted the video said ‘car washes are going to make some money now’
The crows can then be seen flying away in a large flock before returning to the spot
‘Ching ching thanks to the birds.’ The birds are first seen flocking around and sitting on top of cars.
However towards the end of the footage, they can be seen taking flight in a westerly direction, before returning to the cars and shoppers are seen in the back pushing trolleys out of the store.
The scenes were reminiscent of the Alfred Hithcock movie ‘The Birds’ which was made in 1963.
The rare sighting was reminiscent of scenes from Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie ‘The Birds’
Poster images from the movie of lead actress Tippi Hedren (pictured) being set upon by birds as she seeks shelter in a phone-box have become iconic.
The movie focuses on a series of sudden, unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay in California.
Poster images from the movie of lead actress Tippi Hedren being attacked by birds as she seeks shelter in a phone-box have become iconic.
American crows are fairly common and conspicuous throughout most of the lower 48 states outside the southwestern deserts.
According to PBS, a group of crows is aptly called a ‘murder.’ There are several different explanations for the origin of this term, mostly based on old folk tales and superstitions.