Found a sick magpie yesterday and took it to a local wildlife rehab center; a friend just reported seeing a dead a. tree sparrow in her yard, I’m worried they might have gotten the bird flu and wonder if there are iNat projects for reporting such sightings, other than just annotating the dead ones a…

I’m not sure about specific projects, but you can filter by annotation on the Identify page by clicking on Filters and then more filters.

You can post in Dead birds and Wildlife Diseases: Morbidity and Mortality , but I wouldn’t worry about 2 dead birds, much more dies every winter.

Are there any observation fields for disease as well?

this isn’t an iNature project (I apologize if that is not allowed - I am new to this site), but the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative tracks and investigates wildlife mortality/disease and also often does free diagnostics for free-ranging wildlife in Canada. You can call them about dead wildlife …

No its fine. Also , welcome! (Don’t they have to be in Canada then?)

Check out dbird.org which is a global site set up by NYC Audubon.

Thanks, that looks like a very useful site, hope it includes parameters for tracking diseased birds too, besides for injured and dead ones it currently has.

Great site! Wish other countries have something like that too …

CWHC only if the animals are in Canada, but other countries have agencies that do similar work, and for some taxa there are international organizations (eg for piles of sick and dead reptiles and amphibians, PARC - Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation - maintain the Herpetofaunal Disease A…

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jasonhernandez74 January 20, 2023, 1:44am 13

Still no observations of West Nile Virus, so if the birds test positive for that, you could upload pictures of the dead bird and the test result and get an iNat first.

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