What role does the bird play in the transmission of the virus? pls me it is on the west nile virus

The role birds play is that they have to be bitten by a infected mosquito to get infected themselves then birds of prey end up eating the birds that have already died from the virus. Here’s an article that can talks more about it sorry if it doesn’t help.

https://news.ucsc.edu/2011/10/west-nile-virus.html