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** In follow up to David Christie's recent comments on
AMERICAN CROWS [Corneille d'Amérique] in the area, Georges Brun sends
photographs he took during the recent mild weather event with large numbers of
Crows assembled below the Gunningsville bridge area, but not as large a number
as David had witnessed. Georges wonders if their intent may be the ground
spiders there that are super hardy and are present there from February to March
even when there are ice pellets for snow cover.
** Our
Little Brown Bats and Long-eared Bats have been nearly decimated by White-nose
syndrome. The Big Brown Bat is not subject to White-nose syndrome as it
overwinters in buildings, attics or other appropriate sites; not in moist damp caves favourable to the White Nose Syndrome fungus proliferation.
Big Brown Bats are not numerous in New Brunswick but are very present and have
the potential to carry the rabies virus. A man in Sussex was recently bitten by
a bat in his basement as he was separating his cat from it. The bat tested
positive for rabies and the man had to undergo the painful post rabies exposure
treatment. The cat was vaccinated for rabies and so just a booster injection was
indicated. This does not mean that all Big Brown Bats in New Brunswick carry
rabies, but be advised to simply bear the possibility in mind if bats are
encountered in buildings in winter.
Nelson
Poirier,
Nature
Moncton
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