[Vision2020] A stupid question

[g. crabtree]

Carl, I don't know  squat about pigeons but I do know that going nose to 
beak with a sick one would be very low on my things to do list. A very 
cursory Google search returned this;


Diseases Associated
with Pest Birds

Bacterial
Paratyphoid
Vibriosis
Salmonella
Listeriosis
Pasteurellosis

Fungal
Histoplasmosis
Candidiasis
Sarcosporidiosias
Blastomycosis

Viral
Encephalitis
Meningitis
Newcastle Disease
St. Louis Encephalitis

Protozoal
Toxoplasmosis
Trichomoniasis
American Trypansomiasis

Rickettsial
Rickets

(Does not include diseases spread by parasites which live on pest birds).

In most cases unless the bird in question is bright yellow, has an 
unnaturally large head and lisps about puddy cats I'd give the feathery 
little bastard a fairly wide berth. You might want to have an extra after 
dinner beer just to help disinfect any lingering avian cooties, I mean you 
can't be to careful, right?

gc

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:34 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] A stupid question


> That I should know the answer to, but don't.  Do we have pigeons in 
> Moscow?  I ask because on my walk to work this morning, I was passing the 
> Friendship Square fountain and saw a  bird standing in the middle of the 
> traffic turnaround behind the fountain.  I walked literally right up to 
> it, nose to beak, and it didn't even budge.  It did not look like it was 
> doing well at all, just standing there panting, if birds can pant.  Or do 
> you need a tongue to pant?  Do birds have tongues?  There's so much I 
> don't know.  I'm no ornithologist, but I think it was a pigeon.  A very 
> sick pigeon.  But then I'm not a bird doctor, either.   Carl Westberg Jr.
>
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