{"id":8987,"date":"2025-03-18T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:23:17","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-bird-flu-outbreak-in-wild-birds-and-what-it-means-for-backyard-bird-feeders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/18\/what-to-know-about-the-bird-flu-outbreak-in-wild-birds-and-what-it-means-for-backyard-bird-feeders-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about the bird flu outbreak in wild birds and what it means for backyard bird feeders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bird-flu-outbreak-wild-birds-7d49613331851a33c6cda41a96035959\">AP<\/a> Bird flu\u00a0has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the\u00a0price of eggs\u00a0soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what has been the toll on\u00a0wild birds? More than 170 species of North American wild birds \u2013 including ducks, geese, gulls, owls,\u00a0eagles\u00a0and others \u2013 have been infected with bird flu. Take precautions around sick or dead wild birds, experts recommend. But you can keep your bird feeder up. Despite the spread in birds and other wild animals, scientists say the threat to the general population is currently low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bird-flu-outbreak-wild-birds-7d49613331851a33c6cda41a96035959\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP Bird flu\u00a0has devastated poultry and dairy farms, and sent the\u00a0price of eggs\u00a0soaring in the United States since it was first detected in North America in late 2021. But what has been the toll on\u00a0wild birds? More than 170 species of North American wild birds \u2013 including ducks, geese, gulls, owls,\u00a0eagles\u00a0and others \u2013 have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-influenza"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","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=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}