Received a call from a neighbor yesterday about a bunch of dead geese on the East end of the lake we live on, several dead others showing no fear of humans getting close to them. Some on a road and more on private ground further down. I called my CO and she came out and picked them up for testing. Sounds like it’s happening in other places in the State from other reports.

We just had a few thousand Canada geese overnight right behind the house so I looked that over nothing dead there. Went to the dump yesterday seen a starling dead by the scale and the same neighbor that reported the dead/ dying geese had 2 dead starlings at his place. Also heard about a Turkey farm south of me on the NE border that was hit by it also by it.

I wouldn't miss about 50% or more of the Canada geese on my waterfront.

Get you a pair of Egyptian geese pen the female and let the Male fly loose and he will drive off all other foul

Yep Joes reason for high chicken prices just fell into his lap.......

Some were reported in Northeastern Ohio - I think a couple of bald eagles up there as well.

If it gets into our domestic poultry raising places it will make a few thousand Canada Geese lost look like nothing. With migration in full swing this can travel a long ways quickly.

Bryce

This was published today on the bird flu in NC.... https://www.publicradioeast.org/pre...-first-confirmed-deaths-due-to-avian-flu

NC wild birds are first confirmed deaths due to avian flu
PRE News & Ideas | By Meredith Radford
Published March 17, 2022 at 3:07 PM EDT

NC Wildlife Resources Commission Website

It's been confirmed that a snow goose in Hyde County exhibited signs of HPAI prior to being euthanized. The HPAI virus was later confirmed by an Iowa lab.
The first documented wild bird mortalities due to a highly infectious avian flu were confirmed by North Carolina natural resource agencies Wednesday.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu has killed at least four wild birds in North Carolina. According to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, a redhead duck in Carteret County was among these birds and was observed with neurological signs consistent with bird flu before it was euthanized. The other birds were found in Dare, Hyde, and Wake counties.

In January, the commission confirmed a positive test in a wild duck for bird flu in Hyde County, along with a second positive test in South Carolina. According to a news release, these were the first wild birds in the United States to have that strain of bird flu since 2016.

This type of virus is considered low risk to people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but can be dangerous to other birds including domestic poultry. The public is encouraged to report unusual wild bird behavior.

It hit 4 or 5 turkey farms about 120miles east of my farm. They destroyed thousands of birds. Just getting started.

I think that the destruction of all domestic meat bird flocks, that are in the 10 mile containment radius of birds infected with bird flu, is moronic at best and probably criminal. Those birds meat birds will be culled, with no risk of them infecting humans, within weeks anyways.

It seems pointless to worry about contained, well protected domestic birds, when trillions of wild birds fly wherever they want.

Keith

BREAKING NEWS: Avian bird flu suddenly threatens the snow goose migration with an outbreak confirmed in Missouri. A poultry industry infection has spread to snow geese, mallards, eagles and raptors, and fears are strong among experts that the highly contagious virus will spread further with the appearance of so many migrators in the next few weeks. Turkey hunters, too, should be concerned.

We have it killing birds here in NH.

I hadn’t read about this. Thanks

Did see 3 dead Canadian geese on a pond about a month and a half ago. Didn't think much about it.

They just closed a big refuge here in Central IL yesterday. Several dead snow geese tested positive for it.

Dead Snow Geese everywhere on our local lake.

I bet the spring snow goose season is canceled in 2023. MD

How about a 2 week shutdown to flatten the curve?

We have been following this fairly close as we raise wild waterfowl. Fingers crossed we don't get it but doesn't sound like much you can do to prevent the spread of it. I consider it to be similar to the chronic waste disease. Kinda like mother nature thinning the flock out. Experts make it sound like this strain is spread through fecal matter. Things should settle down once we get through the migration hopefully.

I drove past Montezuma refuge in NY and saw 7 or 8 dead snow geese. At first I thought maybe they were cripples from hunters that didn’t get recovered but it seemed like an awful lot. This sure explains it.

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