Subject: House Finch Tumors and ...
Date: Jan 30 21:02:53 2002
From: Lee & Lori Cain - lcain at seasurf.net


Steve Aronoff said:

"I have lots of birds coming to the feeders in my yard, including lots of
house finches. I'm troubled by the fact that three of the finches - and only
they - have tumors on their heads near the eye. One's tumor even includes
the
eye and gives it the appearance, that's not comical in this case, of one of
those rubber toys that you squeeze and the eyes pop out. Does anyone have
any
insight into what's going on?"

A couple of sites that deal with the problem are:
http://birds.cornell.edu/hofi/ and
www.birdsource.org/gbbc/gbbchofi.htm

Lee Cain
Aquatic Biology/Integrated Science
Astoria High School
Home: lcain at seasurf.net