Скачать или смотреть Clarification on Mysterious Bird Deaths This Summer

Hey Everyone! This is a follow-up and clarification to my video the other day that was an update on the mysterious bird deaths happening this summer in some eastern states.

That video update was based on information from Cornell Wildlife Health Lab shared in this article: https://www.ithaca.com/news/ithaca/co.... This was also the understanding of National Wildlife Federation's senior science staff, whom I work closely with in my work as NWF interpretive naturalist and science communicator, and so felt comfortable signal-boosting it via this video.

My main goal was to just share the seemingly good news based on reporting that quoted a Cornell expert that the illness seems to be subsiding without significant impact to bird populations, and also emphasize that we still don't know the actual cause though there does seem to be some correlation with the periodical cicada emergence. My comment at the end of that video about bird feeders and baths probably being ok wasn't really the main point and I didn't intend for it to become the focus. It did.

Apologies if my previous video was based on inaccurate information, has confused the issue or is premature in the suggestion that it might be ok to put bird feeders or baths out. To state it explicitly for anyone reading this, my advice is always to follow what the appropriate scientific authorities are recommending when it comes to wildlife issues (which seemed to be the case here), and in this case it is of course to follow your state wildlife agencies' recommendations on feeders/baths.

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