[Nhcoll-l] bird salvage programs and HPAI in US

[Zhuang, Mingna]

HI everyone,
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?

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.

Thanks!

Vicky (Mingna) Zhuang PhD.
Biodiversity Collections Manager
UTEP Biodiversity Collections
B209 Biology Building
University of Texas at El Paso
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El Paso, TX 79968
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