Flu (3)

It's official. And a sad story to boot: Rare Songbird Culling Scandal Revealed by Dutch Farmer. This guy can sure do with a little support. The call for legalising poultry vaccination cannot be repeated enough.

Here's a snippet from the recent press release......

The farmer in question (who chose to remain anonymous) lost both his Redscowl birds to an attempt to control a disease that could easily have been fought using medicine instead. And regardless of what he paid for the birds in the first place, their value had of course been immense -- if only because Redscowl are among the rarest bird species on earth.