Birds that eat at feeders are more likely to get sick, spread disease

Date: September 16, 2015

Source: Virginia Tech

Summary: The authors monitored the social and foraging behaviors of wild flocks of house finches, a common backyard songbird, and the spread of a naturally-occurring bird disease called Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis, which is similar to "pink eye" in humans but cannot be contracted by humans.

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