1000 dead Mallards

[sdkidaho]

Full story here.

[tucker301]

So let me see if I've got the facts straight here.

1,000 or so dead mallards in a relatively small area. All appeared to have died from some sort of biological agent.

Let's go investigate.

Gloves? Masks? Moonsuits?
Nah... we'll be fine

[tucker301]

Update:
it's now up to 2,500 dead.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/4402707.html

[Webfoot]

That really sucks.

But I wonder if there were any bands??

[tucker301]

But I wonder if there were any bands??

Now that man's a waterfowler!

[mudhen]

That really sucks.

But I wonder if there were any bands??

Probably a few.

Band recovery from die-offs is a part of most official clean up jobs. Band numbers are called in just as they should be with any other method of band recovery.

mudhen - CA