Spoonbill action voluntary echo: disease threatens spoonbills in Taiwan.(Earth Island in the news)

Earth Island Journal | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Last winter, 73 black-faced spoonbills died of botulism in Taiwan. About 50 birds had already died before the cause of the disease could be identified. Local officials, along with scientists from Japan and around the world, scrambled to determine the cause of the outbreak, to keep healthy spoonbills away from the source of the disease, and to save some ailing birds with antidote serum. Recent botulism epidemics have killed birds by the thousands on Lake Erie, the Salton Sea, and San Francisco Bay, but the situation in Taiwan is more serious than the numbers might suggest: 73 ...

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