Re: [cobirds] West Nile killing birds?

Over the past few days, I've noticed two dead Chickadees in my southwestern Weld County yard. Both were at the base of large trees. I didn't report them though. I figured that if more showed up, then I would. We have quite a few Chickadees in our are, but not as many as we used to have.

 

Pauli Smith

Highlandlake/Mead, Weld County.

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From: SeEtta Moss

To: iceaxe5@gmail.com ; COBIRDS .

Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 3:37 PM

Subject: Re: [cobirds] West Nile killing birds?

I have been seeing more of the species that were hardest hit by the West Nile Virus in the past several weeks and none were dead or appeared ill.  I have been pleased with the recovery, finally, of Black-billed Magpies in my area which has been very slow.  I saw a number of Black-capped Chickadees in Canon City today, another species whose recovery has been slow.  And I have seen a lot of American Crows and a few Common Ravens around southeast Colorado in the past few weeks, all appearing healthy.

Is it possible  for birds that survived the first exposure to it to convey some resistance to West Nile Virus to their offspring?

SeEtta Moss
Canon City
Blogging for Birds and Blooms magazine @ http://birdsandbloomsblog.com/author/seetta-moss/
Personal blog @ BirdsAndBlooms.blogspot.com

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:50 PM, James Wilson <iceaxe5@gmail.com> wrote:

As many of you have heard, we are experiencing a high level of West Nile transmission to humans this season.  Interestingly, we have not seen reports of bird die-offs as we did during the initial emergence of the virus.  If anyone on the list has information to the contrary, we would be quite interested!

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