Birds That Eat at Feeders Are More Likely to Get Sick, Spread Disease, International Research Team Says
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
The authors monitored the social and foraging behaviors of wild flocks of house finches, a common backyard songbird, and the spread of a naturally-occurring bird disease called Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis, which is similar to "pink eye" in humans but cannot be contracted by humans.