Ananova:

Residents of a Romanian town have asked the mayor to act after an invasion of owls.

People from Suceava, in Suceava county, say hundreds of owls have nested in trees in the town.

The owls do no harm but the locals wants them gone as owls are seen as messengers of bad news in Romania.

There is a superstition that if an owl nests near a house then somebody living in the house will die.

Residents counted no less than 70 owls in only one old willow tree near the house of the county's prefect Orest Onofrei.

It is not yet known what causes the owls' migration to the town but it's believed they are driven out of the forest by extreme frost and come to town in search for food.