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Bald eagle nest failures and deaths are piling up at an “alarming rate”as a result of the highly infectious avian influenza, University of Georgia researchers announced this week.

The avian influenza strain known as H5N1is killing an unprecedented number of mating pairs of the national symbol birds,University of Georgia researchers concludedina study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports.

“Even just one year of losses of productivity like we’ve documented regionally is very concerning and could have effects for decades to come if representative of broader regions,” said Nicole Nemeth, an associate professor at UGA’s college of veterinary medicine, who led the study with 10 other researchers. “There were nights where I couldn’t sleep based on what we were hearing and seeing.”

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