A video of a flock of birds erratically flying over the highway is doing the rounds on social media, claiming that birds behaving strangely just before an earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on February 6.
The video is shared with a text: In Turkey, strange behaviour was observed in birds just before the #earthquake #turkey #turkeyearthquake.
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the video, and found it to be not from Turkey.
The same video had been shared on YouTube on January 25, 2017. The video description mentioned that it was taken in Houston, US.
The same video had been shared by an Instagram user on January 20, 2017, mentioning that it was from Houston, US.
In January 2017, The Sun and Daily Mail had also reported that it was captured on a freeway in Houston.
Hence, it is clear that the video is old and not related to the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
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