[Vision2020] A stupid question

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Gary,

Interesting list, for sure.

Now how long would a list be for going nose to mouth with humans?

W.

PS There are lots of pigeons in Moscow.  Just visit the old Stookey's grain 
elevator some time, for example.

There are other kinds of pigeons also.  Polite people call them Kirkers.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "g. crabtree" <jampot at adelphia.net>
To: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A stupid question


> 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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