Hi All, Our friends Fred Stark and Lynne McKay from Little Pine Tree Harbour
on the Bruce Peninsula just reported finding 2x more dead loons and one ill
loon near their place. I had forwarded the report from Rob McIvor that was
on Ont. Birds to them as they had already pointed out a dead loon to me when
we were visiting. They said they had reported the recent dead & sick loons
to the Ministry. Patrick Walsh
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From: "Donald Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:13 AM
Subject: [Ontbirds]Botulism Causing Bird Deaths - Port Hope to Grafton Area
Northumberland today website
(www.northumberlandtoday.com) reports birders and
others finding dead loons and other species along the
north shore of Lake Ontario in the Grafton to Port
Hope area.
Bird bander Elizabeth Kellogg of Port Hope writes:
I was doing a bird survey on the Port Hope waterfront
yesterday and found several bodies - 3 Common Loon, 5
Ring-billed Gulls, 1 Red-breasted Merganser, 1 Horned
Grebe and one Great Black-backed Gull. The newspaper
article said that the bodies have been taken away
for testing, but the results take a little time to
receive (results were negative for West Nile virus).
We also found the body of a Long-tailed Duck, but I
expect that this was a falcon kill. The breast muscle
was completely stripped from the bones which is the
way that falcons eat.
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