Birds that eat at feeders are more likely to get sick, spread disease
Thursday, September 17, 2015 - 08:30
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.