31.   No dead birds with the virus have been found in Manhattan, the Bronx or Brooklyn, and three have been found in Queens.

32.   Nobody wants an official dead bird.

33.   Ocasionally we see one that has been stalked by a cat or other animal, but never do we see other dead birds.

34.   On the front lines in New York, scientists are racing to keep up with a rising number of dead birds.

35.   Other federal agencies have put states bordering the metropolitan region on alert to look for large pockets of dead birds.

36.   Parks Department workers discovered the first dead birds on Tuesday morning.

37.   Public health officials in Texas, worried about bird flyways that cross Texas, last year started testing dead birds for the virus.

38.   Scott said he loved life and would interrupt a desert hike to reverently bury a dead bird.

39.   Several dead birds have been found in Georgia, Florida and Virginia since the virus turned up in a Florida man in July.

40.   She revives dead birds.