Salmonellosis outbreak killing pine siskin finches in California
Redding Record Searchlight Feeders and bird baths may be responsible for increasing the spread of a disease that has already killed thousands of birds throughout the state of California this winter. An outbreak of salmonellosis, a disease caused by salmonella bacteria and passed through fecal contact, is killing birds that winter from Orange County, up to the Oregon-California border, and into Nevada. It mostly affects pine siskins, a species of finch wintering in California, said Krysta Rogers, an environmental scientist at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife investigations l...