After the deadly border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia, a video clip in the publications was falsely shared that it appears to show the eagles gathering in large numbers to feed on the non -restricted bodies of Thai soldiers. The clip was shared days before the last violence, and in fact Hornbills appears in southern Thailand, hundreds of kilometers from the Thai border.
“Many eagles and crows are rupture in the bodies of the Girls (Thai),” says part of the linguistic linguistic name in the Khmer in Facebook video Common on August 5, 2025.
“Please, Thai soldiers, come and take the bodies. Stop hurting your people. They have families to take care!”
The video, which was watched more than a million times, shows the birds that float extensively on a tree.
Screen snapshot of Face Facebook
the The same shots He was also shared in a similar Language publications Khmer on Facebookand YouTube and Tikhak.
It appeared after Thailand and Cambodia agreed to a truce that entered into force on July 29, after five days of clashes that killed at least 43 people on both sides and led more than 300,000 of their homes (a reflection link).
Clashes-the latest eruption of long-term border conflict-also started Blitz The Thai parties and the Kambodians also sought to strengthen the narration that was also responsible (The archive link).
After the truce, the Deputy Minister of Defense in Thailand Narkapanette Cambodia called Bodies From Fallen forces On the borders and social media, Cambodi, they also claimed that the bodies of Thai soldiers were left on the border (archiving here and here).
However, the circulating video precedes the latest border clashes and does not show “eagles and crows”.
A flock of the century
A Search for reverse images Using Key frames From the joint video falsely led to a High quality version Posted by Thai photographer Somchai Chooiri on Facebook on July 21 (July (July 21)The archive link).
I read the explanatory name: “A large group of a regular trumpet century flows and sleeps closely together.”
The video was classified as being filmed in Phatthalung, a province in southern Thailand-hundreds of kilometers from the Thai border.
Compared to the screenshots of the common clip (left) and the Somchai Chusiri video on Facebook (right)
Watermark – Read “Somchai Choosiri” and “Photographer” – also visible at the bottom of both the joint clip falsely and the original video.
Video shot, with a somchai chooiri watermark highlight
The scene of the ordinary century migration was also covered by a local News reports and Wildlife authorities (Archive here and here).
According to their entry into a database that runs Various dietWhich mainly includes fruit but also invertebrates and small vertebrates (The archive link).
Former Agence France Presse a statement last Wrong information Concerned with conflict between Cambodia and Thailand.