<div dir="ltr">I can take my bird feeder down, but I don't get many birds (I think they don't like the budget feed I use ;-) ). But I have a fountain and the birds bathe in it. Is there anything I can do to disinfect it? Or should I reach out to Kindra myself?<br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Mimi Kessler<br>919-599-2892<br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 1:54 PM Wendy Bernhardt <<a href="mailto:wendybernhardt@gmail.com">wendybernhardt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div style="font-family:garamond,"new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">I contacted CLAWS and received feedback from the executive director below </span><span style="color:rgb(53,28,117);font-size:small">(see indented email exchange starting from the bottom up)</span><span style="font-size:small">, which is different from the N.C. Wildlife rep's response (below that)</span><span style="font-size:small">. </span><span style="font-size:small">The FB link Kindra is referring to is here: </span><font style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-size:small"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClawsNC/posts/10159232861234920" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ClawsNC/posts/10159232861234920</a>. </font></div><blockquote style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div class="gmail_attr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kindra</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:mrsclaws@nc-claws.org" target="_blank">mrsclaws@nc-claws.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:30 AM<br>Subject: RE: [Anderson / Wrightwood Neighbors] new disease killing birds, take feeders down?<br>To: Wendy B <<a href="mailto:wendybernhardt@gmail.com" target="_blank">wendybernhardt@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal">I posted it to our facebook page, you are more than welcome to send either out</p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal">I just ask that people stop attacking me. I’m not enforcement, I can’t make anybody remove their feeders, all I can do is suggest based on what we are seeing daily</p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,</p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT"">Kindra D. Mammone</span></i></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal">Executive Director</p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal">CLAWS, Inc.</p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.nc-claws.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">www.nc-claws.org</span></a></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClawsNC/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://www.facebook.com/ClawsNC/</span></a></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll understand."</span></i></b></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Wendy B <<a href="mailto:wendybernhardt@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wendybernhardt@gmail.com</a>></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 1, 2021 10:14 AM</p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>To:</b> Kindra <<a href="mailto:mrsclaws@nc-claws.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mrsclaws@nc-claws.org</a>></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Anderson / Wrightwood Neighbors] new disease killing birds, take feeders down?</p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your quick response, Kindra! Would it be okay to send this out to the thousands of people that are on listservs I belong to and elsewhere, e.g., Nextdoor?</p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Kindra</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:mrsclaws@nc-claws.org" target="_blank">mrsclaws@nc-claws.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:08 AM<br>Subject: RE: [Anderson / Wrightwood Neighbors] new disease killing birds, take feeders down?<br>To: Wendy B <<a href="mailto:wendybernhardt@gmail.com" target="_blank">wendybernhardt@gmail.com</a>></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Hello Wendy and thank you for writing.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to go back to the last bird disease that went around in our area (the one people were convinced was salmonella but was never positively identified as such). CLAWS initially put out a warning to take down feeders in January, the state and CDC and other government officials did not come out with an official stance until early March.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Rehabbers tend to see these issues long before the state does. I know I talked to the state just a week prior to their last news release to please stop feeding and was told much the same as you were in this email. Because they hadn’t yet gotten enough reports whereas by that time, we’d received hundreds of pictures of dead birds, all with the same symptoms.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Having said that, we also get finch eye disease in our area when we get a lot of rain and always suggest cleaning and removing bird feeders for at least a week so as not to spread the disease.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">We are currently seeing an uprising in birds with “infected” eyes and neurological symptoms, the same as in other states, so we are trying to warn people.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Sadly, many need to wait to have the state confirm what we are already seeing and many more birds could suffer and die for this reason.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">I’m not saying we are the be all end all of decisions. Many never took their feeders down the last time and somehow the disease seemed to go away (though I’m not sure this isn’t just the second wave of the same disease). What people choose to do is up to them.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">As rehabbers who are seeing this, it is our responsibility to the animals to try to help and warn people.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Removing feeders won’t harm birds, leaving them up with a deadly disease potentially in the area could harm them. The choice is up to you.</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT"">Kindra D. Mammone</span></i></p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Executive Director</p></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor 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---------</span> </div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:garamond,"new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">From: </span><strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Susan </strong><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 12:36 PM</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Subject: Re: [npna] Bird Feeding Stop Alert/Help birds: Serious new songbird epidemic, US Geological Survey asks for moratorium on feeders/bird baths</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"></div><div style="color:rgb(38,40,42);font-family:garamond,"new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">To: <<a href="mailto:npna@groups.io" target="_blank">npna@groups.io</a>></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="auto"><div>The neighbor of a friend contacted the NC Wildlife Resources Commission to ask about this. Here’s what they said.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><i>Thank you for your email and for your concern about our native bird populations. I have seen this source (and others) concerning the mystery illness you mention. As of yet, we have not found any cases of this illness in our state. I suspect that when we do, we will surely put out another media alert as we did when the salmonella outbreak occurred earlier this year. At this time, we have not issued any guidance on measures to protect our native birds. Please remain vigilant to any sick or dead birds showing these signs/symptoms and for any media releases we may have in the future on the topic. Thank you again for your concern of our natural wildlife.</i> </div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:14px"><p style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"> </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:14px"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Sean Stanton,</b><span style="margin:0px"></span></div></div><div style="margin:0px"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><b>Human-Wildlife Interactions Biologist<br></b><br><i>NC Wildlife Resources Commission</i></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">chander2</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:chander2nyc@gmail.com" target="_blank">chander2nyc@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 12:04 AM<br>Subject: Re: [TPD-NC] Bird Feeding Stop Alert/Help birds: Serious new songbird epidemic, US Geological Survey asks for moratorium on feeders/bird baths<br>To: Debra A Hawkins <<a href="mailto:dhawkins913311@gmail.com" target="_blank">dhawkins913311@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"></span><a href="mailto:DukePark@groups.io" target="_blank">DukePark@groups.io</a>>, Trinity Park Listserv <<a href="mailto:trinityparkdurhamnc@groups.io" target="_blank">trinityparkdurhamnc@groups.io</a>>, Old West <<a href="mailto:owdna@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">owdna@googlegroups.com</a>>, Old North Durham <<a href="mailto:main@ondna.groups.io" target="_blank">main@ondna.groups.io</a>>, stadium-heights <<a href="mailto:stadium-heights@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">stadium-heights@googlegroups.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:walltown-neighbors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">walltown-neighbors@googlegroups.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:inc-list@lists.deltaforce.net" target="_blank">inc-list@lists.deltaforce.net</a>>, Colonial Village Durham <<a href="mailto:colonial-village-durham@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">colonial-village-durham@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto">A. This is an alert that may or may not be completely up to date. (In reviewing the material linked below I saw date going back to May in some on of the info). <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">B. Perhaps more importantly, there is no unified call to stop feeding birds that has been communicated through multiple sources (like Audobon society, the EPA, and others). What is being said is, IF you choose to have bird feeders, clean them regularly. Which -spoiler alert - you should be doing anyway. If you wouldn't eat off of dirty dishes, or put pet food in bowl that's only cleaned once every few months, why would you treat a bird feeder any differently?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please don't simply pass along fear mongering summations that arent accurate. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"></span>---------- Forwarded message ---------<br></div>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Debra Hawkins</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:dhawkins913311@gmail.com" target="_blank">dhawkins913311@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 6:24 PM<br>Subject: [WHHNA-list] Bird Feeding Stop Alert/Help birds: Serious new songbird epidemic, US Geological Survey asks for moratorium on feeders/bird baths<br>To: WHHNA-List List <<a href="mailto:whhna-list@whhna.org" target="_blank">whhna-list@whhna.org</a>></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Dear neighbors, a new unknown/poorly understood disease is ravaging bird populations on the Eastern Seaboard, and spreading to many states and inland. USGS has put out a call for backyard birders to take down feeders and birdbaths to help stop/slow transmission until more is understood or solutions/help is possible. Rehab places are being overwhelmed with sick/dying songbirds and cannot save them all. Please read the below information/check out other articles and consider taking your birding aids offline till the professionals/scientists let us know what or when to resume. Sadly, we need to help our avian population socially distance too -- before flocking season starts in the fall. Many thanks to our local wildlife certified rehabbers and CLAWS INC. for the heads up. As always, please feel free to share and distribute as you wish, and please forgive any duplicate postings not seen/simply disregard if not relevant or interested. Thank you. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p style="margin-top:0in;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">“Birds of the mid-Atlantic are disappearing at an alarming rate, <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/news/interagency-statement-usgs-and-partners-investigating-dc-area-bird-mortality-event?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=facebook&utm_term=0a3f1fb9-caf4-46cb-a52f-e23845585a6c&utm_content=u.s.+geological+survey+%28usgs%29&utm_campaign=biosurveillance-fy21" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(204,51,51)">says the U.S. Geological Survey</span></a>, which is urging residents to refrain from feeding the animals until more is known about a mysterious disease that causes eye swelling, neurological damage and, ultimately, death.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;margin-bottom:1.25rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)">In a recent joint statement by the USGS on behalf of a number of state agencies throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and DC, they warned that birds that congregate in feeders and baths are likely to transmit the illness, which has not yet been identified by wildlife experts. They ask residents to disinfect and remove such ornaments from their homes until the “mortality event” has ended and more is known about how the disease can be treated or prevented.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin-top:0in;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(42,42,42)"><a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/mysterious-disease-is-killing-hundreds-of-birds-in-dc-area/?fbclid=IwAR0S7Ru5w5KkvpZe6nuOOPRwtREGfEshKf8nIikThEIq3Td5kfrsGglOy98" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/mysterious-disease-is-killing-hundreds-of-birds-in-dc-area/?fbclid=IwAR0S7Ru5w5KkvpZe6nuOOPRwtREGfEshKf8nIikThEIq3Td5kfrsGglOy98</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">D in NGP<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
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