I just noticed you said the bird is already dead. Sorry about my earlier post. I didn’t have time to read it closely. But you definitely shouldn’t leave it there for other animals to eat. If it does have avian influenza, it could infect whatever eats it—bird or mammal. I hope it can get tested.
On Aug 4, 2025, at 7:48 AM, Tobias Dean <[email protected]> wrote: Maybe overthinking this but we observed one of our local ravens on the ground in our orchard yesterday. It was walking away from my wife mowing outside the orchard fence very slowly. Completely off normal raven behavior. It was dead this morning. My question is should I A. Bury the body with gloves mask etc B. Notify some agency about it C. Not worry about it and avian flu; let nature take care of the carcass? Thanks. Toby Dean -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME.htm> Rules and Information<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES.htm> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave<http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> Archives: The Mail Archive<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html> Surfbirds<http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds> ABA<https://www.aba.org/birding-news/> Please submit your observations to eBird<http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>! -- -- (copy & paste any URL below, then modify any text "_DOT_" to a period ".") Cayugabirds-L List Info: NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsWELCOME_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsRULES_DOT_htm NortheastBirding_DOT_com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave_DOT_htm ARCHIVES: 1) mail-archive_DOT_com/cayugabirds-l@cornell_DOT_edu/maillist_DOT_html 2) surfbirds_DOT_com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) aba_DOT_org/birding-news/ Please submit your observations to eBird: ebird_DOT_org/content/ebird/ --
