Culling of poultry birds is underway in parts of Bihar two days after reports of large-scale death of hens, crows and other birds led to panic among people about bird flu, triggering a drastic decline in chicken consumption, officials said on Saturday.

Officials of the state's animal and fisheries resource department said culling of 15,000 poultry birds was on in Mubarak Chak village in Jamalpur block in Munger district.