Ah, so in post #10, when you wrote, "I should clarify, so far only domesticated poultry.", you were referring to 'domesticated migratory' ducks? Oxymoron alert.
And in post #9, when you wrote, "The geese are not currently carriers.", I guess you were implicitly excluding all of the geese from which HPAI H5N1 has been isolated, for example A/Bar-headed Goose/Qinghai/5/05 I mentioned in my earlier post?
Your bird-watcher's article lends nothing to my knowledge of H5N1. If that is your primary source of information then I can understand why you are uneducated about this disease.
I may be uneducated about the disease. What concerns me is that people seem to be ready to panic at any moment, here in the US. There is a run on tamiflu. This is really blown out of proportion imo.
I know it is in ducks and chickens and has even been spread to the caged birds in England when they came in contact with infected poultry.
My uneducated understanding is that the disease is being spread to humans in third world countries by folks using bad sanitation practices.
I really don't think the sky is falling.