Cranes Killed at Wildlife Refuge
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Eighteen endangered young whooping cranes that were led from Wisconsin to Florida last fall to create a second migratory flock of the birds were killed in Friday's violent storms, a spokesman said yesterday.
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TAK, Oct 19 (TNA) _ The Sriracha Tigers Zoo in the eastern province of Chonburi has been closed after 23 tigers have died allegedly from bird flu, said Deputy Prime Minister Chaturon Chaisang Tuesday.
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THE bird flu epidemic, which has killed 31 people in SouthEast Asia this year, killed 23 tigers at a zoo in eastern Thailand, a government official said yesterday.
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TEXARKANA, Texas - Poisoned pigeons began nose-diving into pavement and dying on downtown sidewalks, marring the city's annual festival.  Authorities cleaned up more than 25 sick or dead birds that apparently had eaten poisoned corn from the roof of a nearby bank branch.
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The Colorado Division of Wildlife (DOW) has told the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District that avian flu (bird flu) has been ruled out as the cause of death of about 375 ducks at Metro's treatment plant since early January.
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Bird Rescue : Maryland Natural Resources Police last week rescued a bald eagle from certain death last week, when they found the male bird in Frederick County and took it to a veterinary clinic.
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By Andrew O Selsky Associated Press  VIEQUES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Puerto Rico - One misstep on this former U.S. Navy bombing range can be fatal.
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By CAROL J. WILLIAMS  MIAMI - The fate of a generation of endangered migratory whooping cranes now rides on the fragile wings of a 10-month-old chick known as Number 15.
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Oct 19, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A government official in Thailand said 23 tigers at a private zoo died of avian influenza after eating the carcasses of chickens believed to have had the disease, the Associated Press  reported today.
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Storms last week killed all but 1 of the 18 endangered whooping cranes that had recently completed a journey from Wisconsin to Florida, escorted by ultralight aircraft.
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By Tom Pelton, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 22--SWAN POINT -- A combination of disease and last week's sudden cold snap might have caused the death of about 50,000 white perch in the Potomac River near this Southern Maryland community, state officials said.
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Thirteen endangered whooping cranes landed safely at a west-central Florida wildlife refuge Sunday morning, finishing a 64-day, 1,200-mile journey from Wisconsin to their wintering grounds.
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Four tigers escaped their cages at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring two others, a newspaper reported.
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By Tom Uhlenbrock  Editor's note  This story was written before 17 whooping cranes were killed in severe Florida storms recently. The birds were part of Operation Migration, a project to restore a migrating flock from Wisconsin to Florida.
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Three dead swans found on Dorset nature reserve were carrying lethal strain
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Health officials in Thailand are to cull dozens of tigers at a private zoo to stem an outbreak of bird flu among the big cats. As many as 80 could be killed after seven tigers died, raising the death toll at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo to 30.
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Four tigers escaped from their cage at the San Francisco Zoo on Tuesday, and one of them killed a visitor and injured two people, according to local news reports.