Wild birds are dying by the thousands in the Treasure Valley because of avian flu outbreaks, according to a news release from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The agency said Wednesday that it received reports of large numbers of dead birds – many of them geese – at Fort Boise, Lake Lowell and in Parma recently. Fish and Game health program coordinator Stacey Dauwalter said in the news release that numbers are estimated to be in the thousands, and staff are cleaning up bird carcasses in some of the areas with the largest concentrations of deaths.