A departure from hiking, biking and the required gear to be safe and happy … bird flu, and its impact to wild bird populations.
It is not just for chickens … all birds are threatened, and raptors are taking a hit. In the posted article below both peregrine falcons and kestrels are talked about, and sadly the kestrels in CA are under fire.
Burke said that the five tiny birdhouses we would visit were among the program’s most productive, each having welcomed some five chicks annually for the past few years. This year, though, he was worried: Avian flu has infected many wild birds — more than 170 North American species have contracted the disease — and in California, peregrine falcon populations have taken a nosedive. Burke feared that the peregrine’s smaller cousin, the American kestrel, could be hit, too.
