The Bird Flu
Bird Flu Cases - Bird Flu Symptoms - Bird Flu Prevention - Bird Flu History
Prepare Your Family For The Bird Flu Epidemic
H5N1 Avian Flu: Infection Period - 1997 to 2006
- Avoid Handling Birds
- Avoid Eating Birds
- Avoid The Sick
- Cover Coughs
- Cover Sneezes
- Seek A Doctor Quickly
Bird Migration Paths
Bird Migration Paths
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Bird Flu Migration Paths Bring The Virus To North America
The bird flu is very likely to come to North America through migratory bird routes. There are two routes that birds who carry the virus, but are not necessarily infected, will be flying when they bring the virus from Europe to North America. A reminder: dead birds are still infectious. Do not touch dead birds
The Asian Australian Flyway, goes from he Arctic Circle in Siberia and western Alaska, through North and South East Asia to Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. It covers twenty countries including Russia, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Mongolia, Alaska, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, East Timor, Brunei, Singapore and Papua New Guinea, as well as Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
55 species migrate using this flyway, they include: Asian Dowitcher, Australian Pratincole, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Common Greenshank , Common Redshank, Common Sandpiper , Curlew Sandpiper, Double-banded Plover, Eastern Curlew, Great Knot, Greater Sand Plover, Grey Plover, Grey-tailed Tattler, Japanese (Latham’s) Snipe, Lesser Sand Plover, Little Curlew, Little Ringed Plover, Long-toed Stint, Marsh Sandpiper, Oriental Plover, Oriental Pratincole, Pacific Golden Plover, Pectoral Sandpiper, Pintailed Snipe, Red Knot , Red-necked Phalarope, Red-necked Stint, Ruff (Reeve), Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Swinhoe's Snipe, Terek Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler, Whimbrel and the Wood Sandpiper.
The Atlantic Flyway, goes through Africa, into Western Europe, into Eastern Europe, and then north of Canada, coming east of Hudson Bay to the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Those two routes intersect with the north/south routes from North American down around South America and back. They go through the heartland of the U.S., Canada, and South America.
280 species of birds in 18 classes migrate using the Atlantic Flyway, they include:
Loons - Grebes
Rails-Cranes
Titmice-Nuthatches-Wrens
Gannets-Pelicans-Cormorants
Plovers-Sandpipers
Kinglets-Thrushes-Thrashers
Bitterns-Herons-Ibises
Jaegers-Gulls-Terns-Auks
Waxwings-Shrikes-Starlings
Swans-Geese-Ducks
Doves-Cuckoos-Owls-Swifts-Hummingbirds
Vireos-Wood Warblers
Vultures-Hawks-Falcons
Woodpeckers-Flycatchers
Tanagers-Sparrows
Grouse-Quail-Turkey
Larks-Swallows-Jays-Crows
Blackbirds-Finches
