{"id":5556,"date":"2023-12-19T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2023-12-19T18:57:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:57:22","slug":"avian-flu-blamed-for-deaths-of-more-than-1000-snow-geese-at-cheyenne-bottoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/12\/19\/avian-flu-blamed-for-deaths-of-more-than-1000-snow-geese-at-cheyenne-bottoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian flu blamed for deaths of more than 1,000 snow geese at Cheyenne Bottoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2023\/12\/20\/avian-flu-blamed-deaths-more-than-1000-snow-geese-cheyenne-bottoms\/\">12 News<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Testing revealed more than 1,000 migrating snow geese have died of avian influenza at wetlands in central Kansas. Wildlife officials want to bring awareness to protect other birds at Cheyenne Bottoms where dead geese line the shores of its pools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the avian flu impact raises alarm, compared with the overall population at the wetlands, the impacted snow goose population is a small portion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere at the Bottoms, we\u2019ve estimated about 1,200, maybe 1,500 at-most snow geese have died. And again, that\u2019s a pretty low percentage of the actual number of birds we have on the property,\u201d said Kansas Wildlife and Parks Manager Jason Wagner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wagner said about 4,00,000 snow geese are at the Bottoms and there are many more throughout the state of Kansas.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\" Aen a ulhILrnZSj\"> Aen a ulhILrnZSj<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 News &nbsp;Testing revealed more than 1,000 migrating snow geese have died of avian influenza at wetlands in central Kansas. Wildlife officials want to bring awareness to protect other birds at Cheyenne Bottoms where dead geese line the shores of its pools. While the avian flu impact raises alarm, compared with the overall population at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-19-at-19.53.40.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}