50% Pete, that's huge! Its also worrying that hunting crows also has no
limit, only city crows here are protected because of the city limits
otherwise its bang on site, its about time laws were put in to protect
EVERYTHING that is susceptible to things like this.
Martyn
Naturesound.Org
-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Peet
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 2:27 PM
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: West Nile & Crows
In my area, MN. West Nile is very area specific. It hits
neighborhoods one at a time. From first symptoms seen to death in
crows appears to be about 3 days. They don't even seem to care about
testing birds here any more as it is here to stay. Lost about 50% of
the crows last fall, to soon to tell about this year. GH Owl kill
appears to be much higher but I know of no stats and that is just my
observations.
We have an under reaction here rather than an over reaction. The
media reports about birds, people, and horses. No mention that the
large hog operations are also symptomatic. But that would mean you
would have to talk about the human food supply being infected. So no
one talks about it. Except a few of us on the edge.
Rich Peet
--- In Walter Knapp <>
wrote:
> Rob Danielson wrote:
>
> > Hi Martyn--
> > We had behaviors like you describe in Milwaukee last summer. I
saw a
> > sick Jay literally fall off of a porch onto the walk.There were
dead
> > crows, even a few hermit thrushes, in the street. Through the
fall
> > and winter, there were noticeably fewer numbers of crows. But
this
> > summer, the crow population seems strong again. It could be the
> > numbers are up and down in different locations. Rob D.
>
> Around here they have reinstituted running around in trucks
randomly
> spraying whole towns. This, when it was done with ddt, resulted in
> massive bird kills. And Rachel Carlson's book "Silent Spring"
>
> I don't think you have to look for west nile, look for the paranoid
> folks spraying everything for it. Time for another book...
>
> Walt
>
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