Re: [cobirds] West Nile killing birds?

Hi Deb, that's interesting.  The human bias in reporting human disease over animal disease is well known, but I'm surprised here because folks know what bird die offs imply (!)

Jim

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On Aug 23, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Fiddlenurs@aol.com wrote:

    I have been volunteering at the Wild Bird Rehab Center and they have been seeing large numbers of crows coming in with West Nile virus. Most of them die. There are also chickadees and other birds being brought in with the virus. Debbie Strimple has difficulty getting the powers that be to be interested in the number of birds lost to the disease, they are only focusing and reporting on the human impact.

   Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe County

 

In a message dated 8/23/2012 3:37:49 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, seettam@gmail.com writes:

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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