Hundreds of protesters took over a city square in support of a conspiracy theory that birds aren't real and are actually drones operated by the government to spy on the public.
Those in attendance waved signs reading slogans like 'Big Bird is watching you' and 'Pigeons are liars', while booing every time any birds flew overhead.
There were brief but good-humoured clashes with a counter protest that argued that birds are, in fact, real. They held signs of their own such as “We Demand Birds Aren’t Real’s Tax Returns”.
