The Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) has banned supplemental feeding of waterfowl this yr because of the current Extremely Pathogenic Avian Flu (HPAI) outbreak.
Supplemental feeding (regulated beneath strict circumstances) is utilized by many personal hunt golf equipment and a few public waterfowl looking areas, corresponding to Lengthy Level. The choice, made in July, displays issues that HPAI will surge throughout the fall migration, as expertise in Europe has proven. It is going to be revisited subsequent yr.
“The continued 2021-2022 wave of HPAI H5N1 is unprecedented in its speedy unfold and excessive frequency of outbreaks in each home and wild birds,” Setting and Local weather Change Canada (ECCC) spokesperson Hannah Boonstra stated.
As of late July, avian influenza was detected in 100 wild birds, representing 21 species of waterfowl, water birds, and raptors. Twelve mammals, all mink and crimson fox, have additionally examined optimistic.
