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starvation. Birds affected can't get food, or can't swallow what they do manage to find. It is spread several ways, infected mosquitoes can pass it on after taking a blood meal from the bird or spread by direct contact with the effected site, usually at a bird feeder, j . Other diseases affecting songbirds are transmitted by contact, airborne droplets or dust, and cause an infection of the birds eye membranes. This disease has swept across America, first seen in 1994 in Washington D.C. It has quickly spread across the country and the disease seems to effect house finches and American goldfinches mostly but can effect other birds as wall. If the sick bird does not die from the disease it runs a higher risk of being killed by a predator due to the effect the disease has on the do to help and foremi monitorin, ig it vulnerable, lgs we can iers. First Ian by simply
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