New York’s Long Island was once synonymous with “duck” in the culinary world. Now it may lose its last commercial farm. The avian flu outbreak that has led to the slaughter of millions of birds at U.S.

The highly infectious H5N1 strain has caused outbreaks across the country. Now, Long Island’s last duck farm must kill its entire flock and may go out of business, its owner said.

More than 100,000 ducks at Crescent Duck Farm in New York farm are being euthanized due to an outbreak of the avian flu, with owner Doug Corwin saying the situation ‘is gut-wrenching.’