Yellow-tailed black cockatoos have been reported flocking to Banksia cones ten days after bushfire as the follicles open.
A household chicken flock was considered likely to have been infected by H5N1 virus during the previous 6 months if all of the following characteristics were reported: flock death >60%, 100% case-fatality ratio, and sudden death of young and mature birds within 1 or 2 days of becoming sick.
B.N.L. employees and scientists often call Timothy Green's office to report flocks of wild turkeys on the grounds.
Increased risk of scrapie has previously been reported in flocks that always lamb at the same location compared to flocks that periodically vary the site of lambing, and in flocks that lamb in groups rather than in individual pens [ 16].
Green et al. reported that flocks in which cases of scrapie (atypical or classical) were detected were larger and had more exchange of animals between flocks than control flocks (31 ).
Water provision was reported in 139 flocks: 40 flocks (28.8%) were provided with tap water, 44 flocks (31.7%) were provided with water from a local well and in 55 flocks (39.6%) surface water was used as the main water provision.
Among many other things people have reported a flock of dovekies, a lesser bird of paradise, an East Indian bulbul, and a Ruppill's vulture.
Such asocial learning is rarely reported for flock animals.
Approximately 15% of farmers did not catch individual lame sheep (farmer reported median flock lameness 15% (IQR: 10%15%%)).
As chlamydial abortion was reported in Flock A in the past, sheep could have been already serologically positive before vaccination and the very high antibody levels could represent an overlay of both abortion and vaccine-associated antibody values.
