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  Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes” reads the headline of the   Santa Cruz Sentinel   published on August 18, 1961. Accounts from that fateful day tell of thousands of birds crashing from the skies and littering streets and lawns. Curious residents who ventured out with torches to take a look were sent scurrying back into their homes, as half-living birds made a break for their flashlights. Top Stories READ MORE Issue 3 Of Our Free e-Magazine CURIOUS Is Out Now As news of the devastating invasion broke, the story piqued the interest of “mystery thriller producer Alfred Hitchcock” in Hollywood who, the newspaper says, requested a copy of the paper after hearing about what happened. As luck would have it, he was in the process of adapting British writer Daphne du Maurier’s horror story,  The Birds , at the time. The invading avians in question were sooty shearwaters ( Ardenna grisea ) that came crashing down in their thousands in Capitola and Pleasure Po...