<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>From the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota here. We are still allowing and encouraging salvaged birds but have put restrictions on all waterfowl and shorebirds. We also work with numerous groups who are looking for HPAI so they give us a heads up when they find it in local critters. </div><div><br></div><div>We did take in a fisher that was later confirmed to have had HPAI so we disposed of it in accordance to our biohazard protocols. The rehab that gave us the fisher is testing most things that come in with an unknown cause of death. We are also working to partner with our Universities Vet Med program to collect swabs from birds collected this year that the Vet Med program will test for HPAI.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps,</div><div>Sam Getty</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM Kuprewicz, Erin <<a href="mailto:erin.kuprewicz@uconn.edu">erin.kuprewicz@uconn.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-6588933548934425383">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I’m at the University of Connecticut and we have put a hiatus on our salvage solicitation from community members. We’re probably using an overabundance of caution, but I train students to create study skins
 using salvaged birds (and mammals), so we are being especially careful. We have a diagnostic lab on campus that will test our 2021-present collected birds before we release them to students to prep. Let me know if you want more details of have any questions,
 I’m happy to help!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Onwards to glory,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Erin<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Nhcoll-l] bird salvage programs and HPAI in US<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I haven't seen this discussed here, but for those of you that have bird salvage programs with your local communities, do you have your programs open? Open with precautions? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We closed ours last year because we didn't want to encourage people to touch dead birds out of caution since HPAI transmission was ticking upwards. It does seem on the downward trend, but I wanted to get a sense
 of what other collections might be doing. It seems our local rehabilitators are using gloves to handle birds as the biggest preventative measure.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);background:white">Vicky (Mingna) Zhuang PhD.</span><span style="color:black"><br>
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