Hundreds of thousands of legally-protected birds are killed in southern Europe every year after being sucked out of trees and into machines which are harvesting olives. During the winter months from ...

Authorities in Rome were forced to close roads for cleaning after they became caked with droppings from birds which had been binging on olives. Heavy downpours washed droppings left by millions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of birds are being vacuumed up and killed during nocturnal suction olive harvesting in Spain and Portugal. In Spain, 2.6 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The olive harvest is killing millions of birds (Getty) Millions of birds are being vacuumed up and killed during nocturnal suction ...