What is Birds Aren't Real?

"If you haven't heard of the "Birds Aren't Real" movement yet, you will soon. It is a society of people who believe, essentially, that the birds that exist and live in our world today are not really birds at all, but rather government surveillance drones. These people claim that their theory dates back all the way back to 1959."
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/birds-arent-real

"There exists a meta conspiracy movement, set to out-conspire all other conspiracies. Birds Aren’t Real is the parody movement that claims that the U.S. Government genocided birds from 1959-2001 by releasing a virus to kill them off. Now, the movement says, the birds have been replaced with surveillance drone replicas that watch us every day."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xg8p4n/birds-arent-real-they-are-government-spy-drones

"Birds Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy theory claiming that birds are mechanized surveillance drones disguised as living organisms."
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/birds-arent-real

CIA Agent Confesses to Bird Drone Surveillance

"Birds Aren't Real has a staggering presence on social media. It is verified on Instagram with over 276,000 followers, and has another 60,000 followers on Twitter."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/birds-aren-t-real-poster-appears-on-uws-the-bizarre-backstory/ar-BB19hden

‘Birds Aren’t Real’ Is the Conspiracy Theory Mocking QAnon
https://www.thedailybeast.com/birds-arent-real-is-the-conspiracy-theory-mocking-qanon