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KRA2008 t1_j50zioa wrote

in addition to the reasons other commenters mentioned for why they probably do die but you don’t see them, it seems important to note that wild birds probably are infected far less often than chickens because they aren’t packed beak-to-cloaca in cages with poor ventilation 24 hours per day.

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OvershootDieOff t1_j51etpr wrote

Sometimes. Have you seen the pictures of the beaches in Scotland coated in thousands and thousands of dead seabirds? Nesting colonies are being hit hard by the latest bird flu variant.

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