From: "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
So that's what happened to the Jays! They have been missing. West Nile virus has to have gotton a lot of Crows/Black Birds here too. The population at the back yard feeder is way down. Regards, Bob S. near Chicago
I imagine that WNV arrived where you lived about the same time it arrived here, since I'm only 150 miles from Chicago. That would of been 3 summers ago. It really hits birds in the Corvid family hard (crows, jays, magpies). Also raptors - particularly owls. But then the populations bounce back a bit. Unfortunately, old world invasive species - house sparrows, starlings, etc - are the most resistant to west Nile virus.
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