Conservation Bio: Emerging threat of avian influenza to the world's vultures

Black Vulture - Credit Wikipedia #19,307 Of the 19,631 entries in the USDA's Detections of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild Birds - which has only been intermittently updated in 2026 - 1215 (6.2%) are listed as vultures. Other raptors and scavenger birds on the list include eagles ( n=990 ), hawks ( n=1010 ), Owls (n=764) and California Condors ( n=22 ). But these lists are far from…