Subject: Re: House Finch disease
Date: Oct 15 08:44:17 1997
From: Peggi & Ben Rodgers - woodduck at cruzio.com


At 11:44 PM 10/14/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I noticed an eye deformity on approximatly 4 Finches at my feeders a few
>weeks ago...They only hung around a few days, and then suddenly were gone,
>maybe dead......snip
>
>>
>>Were there some messages posted in the past year or so on a disease or
>>parasite or other pathology common in House Finches?
>>
Hi tweets,

Yes, there was some discussion last year. I was helping gather data for a
study on these diseases of finches. I'll pass this new sighting onto the
investigator.

The study was trying to find if it was conjunctivitis or avian pox. There
seems to be quite a problem with, I believe pox, back east; but they didn't
think it had spread all the way across the country. This may be a different
problem here. Poor finches.

Thanks,

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
woodduck at cruzio.com
http://www2.cruzio.com/~woodduck/


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