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Farmers and wildlife watchers are on guard after some poultry flocks and wild birds — including a Canada goose in Ottawa and a redhead duck in Kingston, Ont. — recently tested positive for a deadly strain of bird flu.
How the birds were misplaced or forgotten outside Blair Station is still a mystery.
OTTAWA -- There was a rescue mission at the steps of the Rideau Canal to save tiny goslings in danger of falling over the ledge to their death. Early Wednesday morning, a family of geese, including eight goslings, fell into the Rideau Canal locks by the Chateau Laurier. Anouk Hoedeman is the founder of Safe Wings Ottawa, an organization of volunteers trying to prevent city-dwelling birds from dying. "It might not seem like a bad thing, because you know, they’re goslings, and its water. But they get trapped in the locks like that," says Hoedeman. "They can’t just swim indefinitely...