Noticed a number of dead birds on the walk to and through campus today.
Maybe I just notice these things more nowadays.
Or, maybe it is the change to cooler weather.
In the meantime here is something to cheer you up
Deaths continue to double each year.
Simplest explanation is that it is growing exponentially in birds (or some other host) with a low co-efficient for transmission to humans, that is constant.
If human-to-human transmission became efficient, the doubling time would suddenly shrink to something like 1-2 weeks.
Else, the incidence in birds must saturate and we'll see a leveling off, or decline, in human cases as the bird host reservoir saturated.
More like this
This is a summary of several of the better books I’ve had the opportunity to review here, organized in general categories.
tags: birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
tags: conservation, endangered species,
Family Guy, S07E02 'I Dream of Jesus':
Peter: Brian, can I see that paper for a sec?
(Brian gives Peter the paper. Peter peruses the paper.)
Peter: Huh... that's odd... I thought that would big news.
Were they crows (or bluejays)? They are still getting hammered by West Nile Virus.
Songbirds. I want to say warblers or orioles.
Not much of a twitter.
It has rained recently so mosquitos might be up, but it has also got a lot cooler.