Northumberland today website (www.northumberlandtoday.com) reports birders and others finding dead loons and other species along the north shore of Lake Ontario in the Grafton to Port Hope area.
Bird bander Elizabeth Kellogg of Port Hope writes: I was doing a bird survey on the Port Hope waterfront yesterday and found several bodies - 3 Common Loon, 5 Ring-billed Gulls, 1 Red-breasted Merganser, 1 Horned Grebe and one Great Black-backed Gull. The newspaper article said that the bodies have been taken away for testing, but the results take a little time to receive (results were negative for West Nile virus). We also found the body of a Long-tailed Duck, but I expect that this was a falcon kill. The breast muscle was completely stripped from the bones which is the way that falcons eat. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For instructions to join or leave ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdshow.htm ONTBIRDS Guidelines may be viewed at http://www.ofo.ca/ontbirdsguide.htm
