Avian flu hits U.S. West from wilderness to grocery

STORY: Avian flu hits U.S. West from wilderness to grocery DATELINE: Jan. 11, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:52 LOCATION: DENVER, U.S. CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Canadian Geese in Stearns Lake near Broomfield, Colorado STORYLINE: Egg shortages and skyrocketing prices at grocery stores continue to impact American consumers as a result of the historic avian flu that is spreading rapidly among wild birds and has triggered the killing of millions of poultry. "We have never seen anything like the enormity of this outbreak," Michael Tincher with the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program (RMRP) told The Colorado Sun newspaper on Monday. RMRP is a group of a dozen scientists who work toward protecting and saving wild birds of prey. Colorado's worst-ever avian flu outbreak has now resulted in nearly 6.4 million poultry deaths and is increasingly crossing over into wild birds and killing bald eagles and other precious raptors, the newspaper reported, adding "wildlife watchers call the event 'the stuff of bad dreams.'" L