In the wild, snapping turtles are scavengers, so they snap up anything they can in a pond, including aquatic plants, fish, frogs, reptiles, birds, and …
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Wild Birds
Avian flu is now spreading from mammal-to-mammal, alarming health officials – Earth.com
Farmers and ranchers are advised to limit contact between domestic animals and wild birds, as well as employ robust sanitation protocols within barns …
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New Zealand’s flightless birds are retreating to moa refuges | ScienceDaily
Although recent drivers of decline of New Zealand’s native flightless birds … birds, highlighting the immense importance of protecting remote, wild …
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LA Zoo hatches record number of California condor chicks – LAist
All of the critically endangered birds could be released into the wild under the California Condor Recovery Program.
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Luke O’Neill: Growing concern bird flu could become next human pandemic – Newstalk
“It is the biggest bird flu outbreak ever in history, they reckon. “They are culling loads of poultry here in America, wild birds are dying as …
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‘Nature’s clean–up crew’: record-setting 17 condor chicks hatch at LA Zoo – The Guardian
The birds, protected as an endangered species, will remain under zoo care for year and a half before being sent into wild.
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CDC Confirms Three Human Cases of H5 Bird Flu Among Colorado Poultry Workers
People should avoid unprotected exposures to sick or dead animals, including wild birds, poultry, other domesticated birds, and other wild or …
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H5N1: ‘Game-changer’ for northland poultry and egg producers – NZ Herald
… wild birds and if you’re a free range farmer how do you stop wild birds? In places like the UK, free range farmers were allowed to keep their birds …
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SOAR Admits Over 300 Raptors In 2023 | Carroll Broadcasting Company
SOAR’s mission to give injured birds a second chance at being wild and free saw a success rate of 62% in 2023, with most of the rehabilitated birds …
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UN agency urges urgent effort to combat rise in Asia-Pacific bird flu cases – StreetInsider
Immediate, coordinated preventive measures are essential.” Bird flu spreads to farmed animals from wild birds. The H5N1 strain of avian flu has swept …
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