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Mar 17, 2015 11:14:09 GMT -5
Post by timberdoodle on Mar 17, 2015 11:14:09 GMT -5
www.examiner.com/article/thousands-of-snow-geese-fall-dead-from-the-sky-idaho-eerie-mass-death
Thousands of snow geese fell dead from the sky over Idaho during their journey back to their nesting grounds on Alaska’s northern coast. Idaho was as far as the 2,000 or so snow geese made it on their migrating trek as they dropped out of the sky in an eerie mass death over the state, according to MSN News on March 16.
Thousands of snow geese fall dead from the sky over Idaho and officials with the Wildlife, Fish and Game Department believe the culprit is avian cholera, a highly contagious disease. Biologists are waiting for test results to confirm this disease.
Today the town of Salmon has dozens of Idaho Department of Fish and Game workers collecting and incinerating the birds. The need to do this is urgent as it is believed they fell to their death after contracting Avian cholera
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Mar 17, 2015 11:17:20 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2015 11:17:20 GMT -5
I don't think that hurt the population. i bet I saw 1000 fly over my house last night. A lot of birds.
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Mar 17, 2015 11:20:58 GMT -5
Post by Dutch on Mar 17, 2015 11:20:58 GMT -5
Was at Middle Creek yesterday, supposed to be 100,000 there. Saw a 2 minute video of them coming into the lake last nite. Just an incredible number of them landing.
Saw the PGC is looking to study the effect of west nile on our grouse. Now we have avian cholera in geese.
Sounds like things are not quite right in the outdoors.....
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Mar 17, 2015 11:24:43 GMT -5
Post by timberdoodle on Mar 17, 2015 11:24:43 GMT -5
picture from middlecreek in the link
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Mar 18, 2015 12:14:34 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Goosehunter on Mar 18, 2015 12:14:34 GMT -5
It's hard to imagine how 2000 geese can all die at the same exact time, while flying along during migration. Does this avian cholera kill that suddenly?
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Mar 18, 2015 15:12:01 GMT -5
Post by Dutch on Mar 18, 2015 15:12:01 GMT -5
It's hard to imagine how 2000 geese can all die at the same exact time, while flying along during migration. Does this avian cholera kill that suddenly? Goose, call Jim Binder, I'm sure he would tell you. Oh, wait, you'd probably have to file a right to know request. LOL
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Mar 18, 2015 16:37:13 GMT -5
Post by redarrow on Mar 18, 2015 16:37:13 GMT -5
Was at Middle Creek yesterday, supposed to be 100,000 there. Saw a 2 minute video of them coming into the lake last nite. Just an incredible number of them landing. Saw the PGC is looking to study the effect of west nile on our grouse. Now we have avian cholera in geese. Sounds like things are not quite right in the outdoors.....Watch out there Dutch, some will call you an environmental wacko extremist. There is definitely something not quiet right in the outdoors. I think things will have to get much worse before they reach a level that will allow many to admit it.
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Mar 18, 2015 16:52:31 GMT -5
Post by Dutch on Mar 18, 2015 16:52:31 GMT -5
I've been called that before. Put me down as a conservationist that seems to be taking more notice of the "little" things.
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Mar 18, 2015 19:54:23 GMT -5
Post by timberdoodle on Mar 18, 2015 19:54:23 GMT -5
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Mar 19, 2015 5:07:55 GMT -5
Post by redarrow on Mar 19, 2015 5:07:55 GMT -5
It surprises me that more outdoorsmen don't show concern for environmental problems. Some even show what could pass for contempt for the folks who point them out.
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Mar 19, 2015 5:15:57 GMT -5
Post by Dutch on Mar 19, 2015 5:15:57 GMT -5
Red, you are correct in that. We have had an internet "stalker" for a number of years spreading lies about us. Easy to hide behind a keyboard and spew lies.
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Mar 19, 2015 6:43:15 GMT -5
Post by timberdoodle on Mar 19, 2015 6:43:15 GMT -5
History[edit]
The disease was first recorded in the 18th century. However it was not until the 1880s that Louis Pasteur first isolated and grew it in pure culture. Originally a disease of fowl in Europe, it was first recorded in North America in 1943-44. Since then outbreaks have been recorded almost annually in wild birds. Today, this disease is most prevalent in wild waterfowl of North America.[4]
In 2011 an outbreak of avian cholera killed thousands of eider ducks in Arctic regions of Canada. Scientists are studying the outbreak and its potential to spread to Greenland.[5][6]
In March of 2015, another outbreak of avian cholera killed roughly 2,000 snow geese in northern Idaho while flying their spring migration to Canada.[7][8
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