A Mystery Illness Is Killing Mid-Atlantic Songbirds
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Federal and state wildlife officials in the Mid-Atlantic region are asking people to stop feeding birds and providing water in bird baths amid dozens of reports of mysterious songbird deaths.
Reports first emerged in the Washington, D.C., area in late May. Now wildlife agencies throughout the Mid-Atlantic and into the Southeast and Midwest are receiving similar reports. We did see really large numbers of grackles and blue jays, in particular, and they were all younger, says Belinda Burwell, a veterinarian who founded the group Wildlife Veterinary Care in Virginia.
Belinda Burwell
Federal and state wildlife officials in the Mid-Atlantic region are asking people to stop feeding birds and providing water in bird baths amid dozens of reports of mysterious songbird deaths.
Reports first emerged in the Washington, D.C., area in late May. Now wildlife agencies throughout the Mid-Atlantic and into the Southeast and Midwest are receiving similar reports. We did see really large numbers of grackles and blue jays, in particular, and they were all younger, says Belinda Burwell, a veterinarian who founded the group Wildlife Veterinary Care in Virginia.
She says birds are arriving without energy and closed eyes. Sometimes the eyes were swollen or they were crusted, says Burwell, and they have neurological symptoms like dizziness, where they would swing their head very slowly back-and-forth.
A Mystery Illness Is Killing Mid-Atlantic Songbirds
By Jeff Brady
July 2, 2021
Federal and state wildlife officials in the Mid-Atlantic region are asking people to stop feeding birds and providing water in bird baths amid dozens of reports of mysterious songbird deaths.
Reports first emerged in the Washington, D.C., area in late May. Now wildlife agencies throughout the Mid-Atlantic and into the Southeast and Midwest are receiving similar reports.
“We did see really large numbers of grackles and blue jays, in particular, and they were all younger,” says Belinda Burwell, a veterinarian who founded the group Wildlife Veterinary Care in Virginia.
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