Birds Drop From Trees as Temperatures Soar in Western Australia Outback

‘I was just taking a walk down near the camp kitchen and there were dead birds laying there, carked it, keeled over, too hot.’

A burnt bicycle lies on the ground in front of a house recently destroyed by bushfires. Photo by David Gray/Getty Images

One of Australia’s hottest towns has sweltered through a brutal four-week stretch of daily maximum temperatures above 41C that has caused birds to fall from trees.