Birds in Great Salt Lake Felled by Cholera by the Thousands
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A recent outbreak of avian cholera was especially potent, killing about 15,000 birds.
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Birds coated in oil were carried to a wildlife refuge by volunteers trying to save them from the largest oil spill on the Delaware River in nearly a decade.
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Oil spills cause more than half a million water birds to die each year, according to conservationists. Rescue workers offer some birds a chance at survival.
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SAN DIEGO - Six additional dead birds infected with the mosquito-borne West Nile virus have been discovered in San Diego County, a Vector Control official announced Thursday.
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Nearly a third of North America&#39;s birds are in significant decline, signaling degrading environmental conditions and leaving some Florida species hard-hit, according to a report released this week.
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It's a bad omen when one of America's national birds dies knocking out the power lines for 10,000 people
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When Attia Abdel-Hamid  Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in  Egypt&#39;s Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts  them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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SALMON, Idaho  - Officials scrambled on Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border.
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Authorities in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal begin investigating the death of thousands of poultry birds.
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By DEIRDRE CONNER  Hundreds of dead and dying seabirds are washing up on Florida's Atlantic coastline and wildlife experts say the cause is a mystery.  But they do know this: The die-off is far larger than in past years.
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VALDIVIA, Chile  - Emaciated black-necked swans  have been falling from the sky here, alarming people in this  scenic university town and setting off a national clamor.
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VICTORIA, British Columbia -- Four people, dozens of dogs and cats, 11 porpoises and a horse have died from a rare tropical fungus since it was detected on Vancouver Island in 1999, a study has concluded.
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An increasing number of redpolls are dying off in the Fairbanks area this winter, baffling wildlife biologists. Experts had suspected the red-capped finches were dying of salmonellosis, but preliminary cultures did not confirm the presence of the bacteria.
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Bird watchers are invited to marvel at the wonder of up to 45,000 starlings swooping over Brighton.
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THE LIVES lives of dozens of birds - including three rare avocet chicks - are in danger after an oil spillage polluted a North-East nature reserve.  Staff at WWT Washington Wetland Centre, on Wearside, were last night monitoring the water at Wader Lake after oil was found.
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Biologists at Washington State University say they have isolated a bacteria that may have contributed to the deaths of thousands of bighorn sheep in the West over the past five decades.
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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.