‘Dropping dead out of trees’: more than 100 corellas in apparent mass poisoning in northern Victoria

A wildlife carer found 105 dead long-billed corellas at Barmah on the Victorian banks of the Murray River last week. Photograph: Supplied by Kirsty Ramadan.

The Victorian wildlife watchdog is investigating the deaths of more than 100 long-billed corellas which were found near the Murray River.

The birds were discovered by wildlife carer Kirsty Ramadan, who was called to Barmah, near the Victorian/New South Wales border, by the Yorta Yorta centre, to capture a sick long-billed corella on Wednesday. She found 105 long-billed corellas, all dead or dying.