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Bird flu detected in Grays Harbor County
Prolonged outbreak in wild birds could signal new course for virus, scientists say
By Clayton Franke • December 3, 2022 1:30 am
The evening of Nov. 9, just before dark, Vivian Dahlin drove her Jeep onto the beach at Chance a La Mer in Ocean Shores. As her tires pushed through the tire-tracked sand, she scanned the beach and noticed a gray lump lying motionless in the roadway. As she got closer, she realized it was a bird.
“I drove up to it, and I sat and watched it,” said Dahlin, who regularly volunteers rescuing birds for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. “I sort of talked to it. It didn’t move. I drove around it a couple of times, and it didn’t move. That’s not normal.”
Despite its behavior, the bird was “quite alive,” Dahlin said. The bird — which to Dahlin looked like a small goose — sat upright, nodding its head off to one side. It didn’t flee when Dahlin nudged it with her dog-ball launcher.
After scooping it into a carrier, Dahlin took the bird to the Twin Harbors Wildlife Center in Montesano, which sent test samples from the bird to a Washington State University wildlife disease lab in Pullman.
The bird, a Cackling Goose, died soon after...
Bird flu detected in Grays Harbor County
Prolonged outbreak in wild birds could signal new course for virus, scientists say
By Clayton Franke • December 3, 2022 1:30 am
The evening of Nov. 9, just before dark, Vivian Dahlin drove her Jeep onto the beach at Chance a La Mer in Ocean Shores. As her tires pushed through the tire-tracked sand, she scanned the beach and noticed a gray lump lying motionless in the roadway. As she got closer, she realized it was a bird.
“I drove up to it, and I sat and watched it,” said Dahlin, who regularly volunteers rescuing birds for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. “I sort of talked to it. It didn’t move. I drove around it a couple of times, and it didn’t move. That’s not normal.”
Despite its behavior, the bird was “quite alive,” Dahlin said. The bird — which to Dahlin looked like a small goose — sat upright, nodding its head off to one side. It didn’t flee when Dahlin nudged it with her dog-ball launcher.
After scooping it into a carrier, Dahlin took the bird to the Twin Harbors Wildlife Center in Montesano, which sent test samples from the bird to a Washington State University wildlife disease lab in Pullman.
The bird, a Cackling Goose, died soon after...
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