Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

If you do find dead birds like this (if they're fresh and not freeze-dried or damaged) you can store them in your freezer in plastic bag so they can be donated to the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (when they eventually are open for the public again). I'm not sure if

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

Over a month ago, I found one dead Siskin under my backyard feeders. 16 others seemed fine & later moved on to somewhere else. Donna Scott Lansing Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2021, at 9:56 AM, Wesley M. Hochachka mailto:w...@cornell.edu>> wrote: If the dead birds were siskins, redpolls, or

RE:[cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

If the dead birds were siskins, redpolls, or goldfinches, my first reaction is that the birds died from salmonellosis, and potentially you might have observed these birds sitting motionless and incredibly puffed up near the bird feeder at some point before you found the dead bird on the ground.

Re: [cayugabirds-l] Dead birds under the thistle feeder

There have some been problems with pesticides in birdfeed in the past https://www.audubon.org/news/pesticides-bird-seed-scotts-miracle-gro-fined-125-million Cheers, -Mike :-) *Michael Ludgate* canaaninstitute.org 607.227.0090 (c) Quarantine photos; mostly from