The scale is ambitious. The plan is to build enough healthy birds to survive in the wild while avoiding the mistakes that erased the species once …
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Europe, North America face early wave of bird flu cases
PARIS An unusually early outbreak of bird flu cases affecting high numbers of wild birds and poultry farms across Europe and North America is …
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4 poultry farms in southwestern Ontario hit with avian flu resulting in 63k birds culled so far
That includes changing foot covers to avoid carrying the feces of infected wild birds onto the farm. On rare occasions, H5N1 can cause disease in …
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Giving Back to Birds by Contributing Observations to eBird Dec. 3rd – Tillamook County Pioneer
Douglas Robinson is Professor of Wildlife Science and Curator of Birds at Oregon State University. He is Chief Editor of the academic journal …
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Bird flu could be ‘resistant’ to body’s defence system, scientists warn | The Independent
Health officials suspect these birds had been exposed to wild birds, leading to the infection. Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control …
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The Case Against Thanksgiving Turkey – Mother Jones
We will collectively eat more than 40 million turkeys—factory farmed and heavily engineered animals that bear scant resemblance to the wild birds that …
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Lethal virus hits last rare blue macaws in Brazil wild – NZ Herald
… bird in the wild. ICMBio has fined the BlueSky breeding … birds and built barriers to prevent contact between wild birds and captive birds.
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11 Of The Last Spix’s Macaws In The Wild Struck Down With A Deadly, Highly Contagious Virus
The infected birds are part of the Spix’s Macaw Reintroduction Program, a bold initiative led by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity …
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Songbird experts put superb fairy-wren danger call on the record – Phys.org
After years studying wild birds in the bush, Flinders University experts have described a new call type frequently used by one of Australia’s …
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Pile Of Feathers Wedged Behind Bakery Is Actually A Wild Animal In Danger – The Dodo
A staff member led Stracher back behind the building and pointed the rescuer toward the area where a teal, a wild bird native to the area, lay trapped …
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