A nestling dusky flycatcher looks nothing like its sleek adult counterpart. Days old, its feathers grow in white tufts on either side of its head. It doesn’t make a sound even as University of Montana graduate student Mary Venegas carefully plucks it from the nest.

A nestling dusky flycatcher looks nothing like its sleek adult counterpart. Days old, its feathers grow in white tufts on either side of its head. It doesn’t make a sound even as University of Montana graduate student Mary Venegas carefully plucks it from the nest.

The disease has impacted Eurasian collared doves almost exclusively so far, with deaths of between 2 and 20 individuals per location reported.

Wow – talk about a close call!!!  Nevermind shooting your eye out, but how about a bird’s beak poking your […]