Recovery center for wild birds braces for avian flu
Montana Wild Wings Rescue Center Executive Director Beth Watne and volunteer Doe Carrol work the on the wing of an injured osprey Monday. The center is taking special precautions to help prevent the spread of avian flu. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A graylag goose glides across the pond at the Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center Monday morning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Three quarantine cages sit empty, but prepared to receive occupants on the edges of the Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center on the east side of Kalispell.
Founder and director Beth Watne has been forced to use the cages in the past, but is hoping to see them sit vacant as the recent wave of highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) continues to spread throughout both wild bird populations as well as commercial and backyard poultry flocks around the country...
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