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Avian influenza detected in vultures found dead in Rocky Mount
By Pat Thomas
Published: Dec. 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM EST|Updated: 3 hours ago
ROCKY MOUNT, Va. (WDBJ) - Avian influenza has been detected in 15 black vultures found dead in Rocky Mount last week, according to the Town of Rocky Mount.
A statement from the town reads:
Preliminary testing results have detected H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the black vultures that were collected from Rocky Mount last week. This is exactly as we expected it to be and is consistent with numerous other HPAI events in vultures in Virginia (and a number of other states) over the past several months.
The birds were found in a creek near a wooded lot on the corner of Dent Street and Franklin Street...
30 vultures in Rocky Mount died from avian flu, state confirms
The virus is more active in the fall when birds are migrating, a Virginia Tech scientist says.
by Cardinal Staff
December 8, 2025
The dead vultures found in Rocky Mount died from avian flu, the Department of Wildlife Resources has confirmed. Approximately 30 vultures were found dead.
The finding brings the number of Virginia localities where wild birds have been confirmed to have died from the virus to 10. These have generally been black vultures, a carrion bird that eats dead animals, which makes them susceptible to picking up diseases.
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Birding: Many report birds missing from feeders this year
By Dan Cristol
PUBLISHED: December 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST
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This year has seen a sharp uptick in concern about lonely bird feeders. The emails and texts are coming from seasoned birders with long experience. Something must be going on. The inexorable decline of our birds due to climate change, cats, collisions and continued habitat destruction is a gradual process that wouldn’t be apparent in one year.
The most benign explanation is that this year has been a mild one north of us, with a good acorn crop, so the birds didn’t need to come this far south or to our feeders this autumn. The recent snow and freezing temperatures will be a test of that hypothesis.
Avian flu is another explanation on people’s minds. While black vultures have been dying in large numbers in Virginia, songbirds such as northern cardinals have not been turning up dead. Yet these resident songbirds are the ones missing from people’s feeders.
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Facebook Dozens of dead birds were found on an Essex County bridge on Saturday, prompting an investigation by the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR).
On Saturday, Dec. 27, the Tappahannock Police Department was alerted to dead birds found on the bridge over the Route 17 Bridge over the Hoskins Creek in Tappahannock.
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At this time, officials suspect that these deaths are related to avian influenza, or bird flu -- a deadly disease that has seen a rise among avian mammals across America. Cases in humans are rare.
A spokesperson with the DWR told 8News that it began testing samples collected from the birds on Monday to determine the cause of their deaths. At this time, those test results have not yet been released.
