[Mnbird] Bird Flu Spreaders

[Pamela Brustman]

Excellent point.
Correlation, migration, doesn't always equal causation.

It pays to look beyond what seems obvious

On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 10:14 AM DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird <
mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:

> Waterfowl are often cited in the media as the birds spreading the bird
> flu.  But I have never seen video of a mallard or a wild goose sauntering
> into a barn filled with thousands of turkeys or chickens. But I have seen
> house sparrows, starlings and common pigeons (rock doves) flying into the
> many openings on such buildings.  And virtually every farm yard has sizable
> populations of at least one of these species present. Poultry farmers would
> do well to try to control the local populations of these species.
> Certainly they can get the disease from migrating waterfowl. But these
> common, unprotected by law, species must be major vectors in bird flu
> transmission.
>
> Don Grussing
> Minnetonka
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