We had a Junco (an "Oregon" hyermalis) come to a feeder today that has a tumor near the left eye.

At 09:02 PM 1/30/02 -0800, you wrote:
>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

Jack Kintner <kintner at nas.com> Blaine, WA