Do not handle sick or dead waterfowl, hunters should take precautions
Duck hunting opened in the Columbia Basin on October 15 and will close at the end of January. ODFW is urging hunters to take care when handling waterfowl and to look for signs of illness in migratory birds.
SALEM, OR - With migratory waterfowl back in Oregon for the winter, the state is again seeing an increase in cases of avian flu and mortality in wild birds, especially among cackling geese congregating in the Willamette Valley. Oregon is the first state to report a new spike in detections this fall.
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was first detected in wild birds in North American in Dece...
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