Officials on Thursday said the Cape May County Zoo “World of Birds” Aviary is temporarily closed to the public as a precaution to protect the zoo’s bird population from highly pathogenic avian influenza. The announcement came as federal officials said a case of the virus was detected in a non-commercial backyard flock of birds in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, among at least a dozen other cases reported around the country. In Cape May County, officials said no cases of the influenza were detected at the zoo. “HPAI is a highly transmissible influenza virus that can affect many different species of…