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The Moyne Shire says tourists have started complaining about the number of dead mutton birds on Griffiths Island near Port Fairy.
Fisherman say hundreds of the birds are being killed daily by a group of foxes living on the island.
The call was not unusual: “There are thousands of birds in my yard. Help!”
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has started the process of in-barn composting of birds in two British Columbia barns after avian influenza was discovered at the end of January.
As of Feb. 1, 36 farms have been quarantined so the agency can monitor the spread of the virus. CFIA monitoring includes testing commercial flocks within a three kilometre radius of the two positive barns and those identified as being linked with the infected premise.
BLACKSBURG, Va. - A wildlife expert is urging Virginia residents to clean and sanitize their backyard feeders following a salmonella outbreak linked to a rise in songbird deaths in several states.
Jim Parkhurst is an associate professor of wildlife at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources. He says a number of songbird deaths have been reported in Virginia, particularly in the western and southwestern parts of the state.
Parkhurst says salmonella occurs in wildlife in regular cycles.
Researchers have reported salmonella-related bird deaths throughout the Southeast. Birds normally carry some salmonella bacteria in their digestive tracks, and periods of stress such as cold weather or food shortages can weaken their systems.
Contaminated seed may be partly to blame.
"We actually have two things going on here," Parkhurst says. "One is the naturally occurring disease vectors in nature that...we suspect has been supplemented by contaminated seed stock." wtop
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
Just a final update on this thread as I saw some news on this today.
BLACKSBURG, Va. - A wildlife expert is urging Virginia residents to clean and sanitize their backyard feeders following a salmonella outbreak linked to a rise in songbird deaths in several states.
Jim Parkhurst is an associate professor of wildlife at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources. He says a number of songbird deaths have been reported in Virginia, particularly in the western and southwestern parts of the state.
Parkhurst says salmonella occurs in wildlife in regular cycles.
Researchers have reported salmonella-related bird deaths throughout the Southeast. Birds normally carry some salmonella bacteria in their digestive tracks, and periods of stress such as cold weather or food shortages can weaken their systems.
Contaminated seed may be partly to blame.
"We actually have two things going on here," Parkhurst says. "One is the naturally occurring disease vectors in nature that...we suspect has been supplemented by contaminated seed stock." wtop
So that would seem to be a reasonable explanation for the dead bird sightings a month or so ago.
As per usual this could also be yet another government coverup ...