https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/09/12/bird-flu-now-killing-wyoming-raptors-roughly-100-eagles-hawk-falcons-dead/?fbclid=IwAR1hiXyu855EwIDXh5bZKgywgalKZ5IvFWhXliQPZ5cCvjCzzVMjsIsSesk

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Published onSeptember 12, 2022September 12, 2022inNews/wildlife

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By Mark Heinz, outdoors reporter
Mark@CowboyStateDaily.com

Though it’s long been a killer of wild waterfowl and domestic poultry, bird flu has started taking a toll on Wyoming’s raptors. It’sstill uncertain how badly it will spread among birds of prey, a wildlife disease expert said.

“These viruses are always re-sorting and reorganizing,” Michael Pipas, a wildlife disease biologist with USDA Wildlife Services, told Cowboy State Daily. “In this case, instead of just killing waterfowl and poultry it (avian influenza) has started killing birds of prey.”

So far, up to 100 eagles, hawk and falcons are known to have died of the disease in Wyoming, he said. The infections are thought to have begun this spring.

“It’s not like birds of prey are falling offbranches…