Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Avian pox – New Zealand: song bird
PRO/AH/EDR> Avian pox – New Zealand: song bird
Other Animal Disease -- New ZealandA potentially severe bird pox outbreak among Otago's waxeyes could cause deaths and spread to other avian species.In his Nature File column in last [Mon 8 Oct 2018] Otago Daily Times, Anthony Harris, of Otago Museum, asked readers if they had noticed growths on waxeyes.Afterwards he received 9 accounts from the public of what was "unmistakably" bird pox, or Avipoxvirus, he said. The correspondence was from Lawrence, Mosgiel, parts of Dunedin and Waitati, and seemed Read more [...]
