Global surveillance for avian influenza wild birds?

Rob Fergus over at "The Birdchaser" posted a story about a plan by Senator Lieberman to create a global network for avian influenza surveillance in wild birds.
 
With about $10 million slated for wild bird surveillance out of $8 billion targetted for pandemic influenza preparedness in the Harkin-Specter amendment, this is a cost-effective way to counter this threat upstream before a global pandemic.  Surveillance in wild birds will provide an early warning system for viral changes, provide new strains for vaccine production,  help mitigate risk of new outbreaks, and generally improve our understanding of the epidemiology of avian influenzas.

If this gets through committee, I hope the plan includes surveillance of birds in the wildlife trade as well.

Damien