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Date: July 8, 2003
Posted by: Robyn Graboski (robyn@statecollege.com)

Date: July 8, 2003
From: Robyn Graboski <robyn@statecollege.com>
To: cyoung@nd.edu, West Nile Virus Listserve <WESTNILEVIRUS-L@cornell.edu>

I have personally seen die offs like that after someone has used
lawn care on their lawn, especially pesticides or herbicides.
The robins eat grubs and worms from the grass and experience secondary
poisoning.  I always ask if lawn care/spraying has been done in the
area when I get an adult robin that cannot fly.  Most of the time there
is a correlation.  Sometimes there are
several robins found in the same lawn...some dead...some stumbling.
And there is usually a history of spraying in the area..
From what I hear from other rehabbers, poisoning and WNV
symptoms are very similar, if not identical.

Robyn

cyoung@nd.edu wrote:

>  I have just had two coworkers from opposite ends of the county 
>report 2-3 dead
>  robins apiece in their yards in the past two weeks.  Has anyone 
>else had any, or
>  know of any explanation?
>
>  Catherine Young
>  Department of Biological Sciences
>  University of Notre Dame

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Centre Wildlife Care
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