21. --Make a concerted effort to find any bird you shoot. 22. Maryland is the first state outside the New York region where an infected bird has been found. 23. No additional birds had been found in metro Atlanta. 24. People often make the mistake of thinking night-crooning mockingbirds are nightingales, a bird found in Europe and Asia. 25. Several dead birds have been found in Georgia, Florida and Virginia since the virus turned up in a Florida man in July. 26. She said the findings made it safe to assume that virtually every part of the state is affected, even where no infected birds have been found. 27. The bird is also found in greater numbers in North America, nesting on both coasts from Florida to Baja California. 28. The bird also is found in Alaska. 29. The virus hot spot is now clearly the Jamaica Plain-Brookline area, where all six infected birds were found, said state officials. 30. Three oil-covered birds were found soon after the ship began leaking Monday. |