ProMed Mail reported on mortality in penguins along the coast of Chile with approximately 22,000 birds having died including 3,000 vulnerable Humboldt penguins. (Spheniscus humboldti)

In a Monday, Octobe 30^th posting, Argentina reported mortality in kelp gulls (Larus dominicanus) and South American terns (Sterna hirundinacea).

Avian influenza has made serious inroads into populations of vulnerable and endangered bird species including a colony of Barnacle geese Branta leucopsis) that nest on the Svalbard Peninsula of Norway and overwinter in Scotland