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Monitors with an area bird tracking organization say that they've determined that a number of ducks have succumbed to bird flu​ along Lake Michigan.

Over the weekend and early Monday morning, a large number of dead birds were seen washed up on numerous beaches along Lake Michigan in Chicago.