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Having a bird survive HPAI is of no value unless the trait can be passed on to subsequent generations and does not create a Typhoid Mary. That's a very tall order. I guess you think Ivermectin and Chloroquine will work.

Waiting for resistance to develop is hit-or-miss. Having enough resistance to avoid mortality does not prevent transmission. To be beneficial, the resistance would also have to be a heritable trait. The virus is going to be mutating at the same time to side-step resistance. APHIS is focusing...

No offense @NanaK, but I bet your dock smelled terrible. They used to roost on a giant metal navigation structure in the Harbor. Every inch of metal and concrete was completely coated. It was a good place to fish but smelled so bad you couldn't hang around there for long.

Ugh. I'm a bird bigot and would not mourn the lost cormorants, but hate to hear about dying pelicans. This thing just won't go away.

The 2022 Detections in Wild Birds shows the HPAI strain. It's usually EA H5N1, but not always. So, it seems the incidents on their list have all been tested. That would also imply that incidences that have not been tested are not on their incident list. Maybe APHIS is burnt out from the work...

Geez. If there were 2610 birds in their backyard flock then it's no wonder they got sick. Or, maybe it's just have a REALLY big backyard.

Ms. Blake if flirting with catching bird flu herself. Where's her mask?

BYC has almost a half-million members. At least two or three of them had birds die of bird flu in this go-round. Tragic, but the odds are slim in my opinion.

Wait a minute. A marine mammal with avian influenza? What a case! University of Florisa is probably a pawn in this story. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will bring in their Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service heavy hitters and the National Oceangraphic and Atmospheris...

Cornell's Birds of the Worls web site has detailed information about breeding and migration of every bird species. Of course, there is tremendous variation between species. You have to sign up to get access to the Cornell side but it has tons of information and well worth the effort if you are...

This thread started in January with ducks that had migrated south for the winter.

Supposedly, If an area ever has an overnight low of 77F or above the AI will be destroyed. With the heat waves this summer that should have cleaned up much of the U.S. But, yes, the migrants are the problem as the breeding grounds never got close to being that warm.

Yesterday I saw a Pectoral Sandpiper at the beach. They leave the tundra and have a brief stop-over here on their way back south. It's only a hundred yards or so from the beach to my mallard-derived ducks. But, it happens every year and there haven't been any local cases so far. It's fun to...

Maybe the buzzards can tolerant the virus enough to be longer-term carriers.

mean while, on the nesting ground...

Email report here. They're probably running out of stuff to do.

Whew! You took a really deep dive down the rabbit hole to find all that @NanaK. Nice job. I guess the bottom line is they can and will do whatever it takes to kill them as soon as they can.... whatever the means..

I don't think I've heard of the suffocation thing before. I thought they filled the building with some sort of foam that kills them? Maybe the foam just suffocates?

Well, if carried to the extreme, that could be good news for backyard chicken keepers and hobby homesteads. They will be the only people in America who are not eating meat imported from Mexico and Brazil. But, I'm not sure if it is a good time to be dismantling our nation's meat production system.

Show us your avian influenza. There are almost a half-million members here. There has been one (or is it two?) first hand reports from someone here whose flock was infected. Are those the kind of odds you're up against? Or, is this just the beginning?