That would be West Nile. Wiped out most of the crows around here. Spread by mosquitoes. But it doesn't kill instantly, think you would have noticed the roo looking sick the day before... and blood around the beak indicates some kind of trauma?
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 8:07 AM EDT 'Kate L' starmstbl@dwave.net [CHICKENS-101] wrote:
>Your post sent up some warning flags in my mind.......a year or few back there'd been some kind of an alert out about finding unusual circumstances of dead wild etc birds – some sort of a deadly disease or virus that was going around, be carried all over the nation by wild birds. My memory's not recalling everything there was about that alert, except that we were to call the local University extension or DNR and report it – not sure if they even took in & did autopsies on the birds. That might be something you'd want to do, especially if you keep finding more dead birds......maybe even just for a "best be safe than sorry" thing.
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>I'd ruled out it's being a dog or some other kind of animal myself when you'd said there were no obvious signs of injuries or feathers missing. There'd've been at least a few indicative puncture woulds or at the very minimum some feathers missing.
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