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Index of Subjects At 9:51 AM -0300 8/6/08, Eleanor Lindsay wrote: >Purple finches have become completely silent in my area after >singing their heads off most of June and July = end of nesting >or.............?? Any chance the sick birds presently being seen are >a progression of the March outbreak [salmonellosis in Massachusetts] >outlined below?? At the time they were reported to be moving in our >direction.... > > There has apparently been no detection of salmonellosis in the dead finches tested at Maritime veterinary labs this summer. Rather, trichomoniasis has been identified as a problem in some of those examined. An short item on the rise of trichomoniasis as a problem in finches can be read on the blog of the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, Atlantic Region. It has become significant in the UK since 2005 and was noted in NS in 2007. See http://atlantic.ccwhc.ca/?p=64 David -- David Christie Mary's Point, Harvey, Albert Co., New Brunswick, Canada http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt
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