Denver, CO
Video: How birds at Denver Zoo exercise while avoiding avian flu
DENVER ZOO, Colo. (KDVR) — As instances of the Extremely Pathogenic Avian Influenza proceed to pop up throughout the U.S., the Denver Zoo has needed to quarantine its birds inside.
On March 24, Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirmed the primary case of the avian flu in Colorado. Since then, the Denver Zoo has needed to instantly transfer all its birds to a protected indoor space to keep away from an infection.
On Sunday, the zoo tweeted out a video exhibiting how keepers have tailored to taking good care of the birds whereas they continue to be inside. With the intention to assist the grey-crowned cranes proceed to train, the keepers use the corridor of their animal hospital as a flight path for the birds to soar.
Based on the tweet, “It’s one in every of some ways our keepers guarantee our birds obtain the absolute best care whereas inside!”
The avian flu has affected greater than 1.4 million birds in Colorado and greater than 37 million birds nationwide. Gov. Jared Polis enacted a verbal state of emergency after a Delta County inmate examined optimistic for the flu on April 28.
As soon as the avian flu is detected in a facility, all of the birds should be euthanized. The fast-spreading virus could cause sudden dying, lack of urge for food, sneezing and swelling in birds which are contaminated.
Though friends on the Denver Zoo should not in a position to go to with the penguins, cranes, or eagles, they are often reassured that their winged buddies are getting one of the best care below troublesome circumstances. The zoo will proceed to replace the standing of the quarantine on its web site.
A lot has gone wrong for the Nuggets over the past 12 months.
Less than three weeks after Denver gave up three second-round picks to move up six spots in the 2024 draft to nab DaRon Holmes at No. 22, the rookie forward sustained a season-ending Achilles tear during his Summer League debut.
The Nuggets’ only other trade during the 2024 offseason saw them give up three second-round picks to get Reggie Jackson‘s contract off their books. With that newly opened salary slot, they used their taxpayer mid-level exception to sign Dario Saric, who ultimately logged just 210 total minutes across 16 outings, failing to emerge as the sort of reliable frontcourt reserve the front office envisioned.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, a key part of the roster that won a title in 2023, walked in free agency and Denver, already operating in tax-apron territory, wasn’t in position to acquire a veteran replacement for him.
The relationship between head coach Michael Malone and general manager Calvin Booth became so strained that the Nuggets decided to fire both of them with less than a week left in the 2024/25 regular season.
Somehow, despite those personnel missteps, the unlucky breaks, and the organizational turmoil, Denver earned a guaranteed playoff spot in a competitive Western Conference, won a hard-fought first-round series against a talented Clippers team, then took the eventual conference champion Thunder to a Game 7 in round two before bowing out of the postseason.
It’s a testament to the talent at the top of the Nuggets’ roster that, in spite all that went wrong, Denver was just a Game 7 victory away from making the NBA’s final four and potentially carving out a path to another title. That top-end talent starts with Nikola Jokic, who has been named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player in three of the past five seasons and had a strong case for the award in the two years he didn’t win it.
As long as the Nuggets have a healthy, prime Jokic on their roster and surround him with enough complementary talent, they’re capable of contending for a championship. In Jamal Murray and Aaron Gordon, the club has two clear pieces of that puzzle, and Christian Braun made a strong case with his breakout 2024/25 season that he should be considered a part of Denver’s core, too.
The question for the Nuggets is whether they’ll be able to get enough out of the rest of their roster to supplement those impact players in the starting five. Having lost important depth pieces like Caldwell-Pope, Bruce Brown, and Jeff Green during the previous two summers, the new-look front office will have to figure out a way to use the club’s limited assets to replenish that depth and get the roster back to a championship-caliber level.
The Nuggets’ Offseason Plan
While I assume Denver views Jokic, Murray, Gordon, and Braun as core players going forward, I’m not sure the same can be said for Michael Porter Jr., who has been the subject of trade rumors for the last year or two and struggled mightily in the postseason as he attempted to play through a shoulder injury.
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Charles Burrell, the classical and jazz bass player and the first African-American member of a major American symphony, died early Tuesday at age 104. His passing was confirmed by Burrell’s cousin Purnell Steen.
John Shackford
John Shackford, who supported Burrell as a publicist, said he was a “wonderful gentleman and friend.” Shackford said, “I have been honored to know Charlie and his extended family since I met him in 1990 at the Symphony. Driving him to Dazzle and Boettcher Hall on numerous occasions, being able to take many photos of him over the years, and the many visits with him sharing great memories, are memories I will always treasure. In the immortal words of Duke Ellington: ‘Love you madly!’”
Denver Symphony (now Colorado Symphony)
Burrell joined the Denver Symphony Orchestra (now the Colorado Symphony) in 1949.
The Colorado Music Hall of Fame said that Burrell was often referred to as “The Jackie Robinson of classical music,” adding that Burrell was “equally impressive is his virtuosic career as a jazz musician, making him one of a rare breed who felt as comfortable in a tux at Boettcher Concert Hall as he did with a cigar in his mouth at Five Points’ Rossonian Lounge.”
In 2023, Burrell was honored at the MLK Jr. Business Awards, and Aurora Public Schools named a school in his honor, the Charles Burrell Visual & Performing Arts Campus.
The Nuggets are not renewing the contract of assistant general manager Tommy Balcetis, multiple sources familiar with the situation told The Denver Post on Monday.
Balcetis joined the organization in 2013 under then-general manager Tim Connelly, running the team’s analytics department and eventually rising to the assistant GM role. Born in Lithuania, he’s been highly regarded as an up-and-coming front office mind for years, having been selected for The Athletic’s 40 under 40 list of bright young executives, coaches and agents in 2022.
But when the Nuggets fired Calvin Booth in April, their G League affiliate general manager, Ben Tenzer, was named interim GM rather than Balcetis, revealing how team ownership felt about the front office hierarchy. Balcetis was considered an internal candidate for the vacancy, but not the favorite, before the Kroenkes chose to let his contract expire.
The decision leaves Denver without a full-time general manager or assistant general manager nine days before the first round of the 2025 draft. Tenzer remains in the interim position and was still considered a candidate as of Monday.
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