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Discussion => Behaviour => Topic started by: torontobirds on May 27, 2013, 10:27:17 PM

Title: Northern Cardinal with conjunctivitis?
Post by: torontobirds on May 27, 2013, 10:27:17 PM

I have a male cardinal that visits my yard and is now blind in one eye.  The eye appears to have a black scab covering the entire eye.  So far the other eye looks okay.   Is there any help out there for this bird?

Title: Re: Northern Cardinal with conjunctivitis?
Post by: Raven11:11 on July 10, 2013, 08:36:07 PM

Saw the same on the Albino Robin.

Title: Re: Northern Cardinal with conjunctivitis?
Post by: newfoundlander61 on July 11, 2013, 06:17:15 AM

if it visits your feeder make sure you clean throughly the feeder on a regular basis to avoid it spreading to others. If severals have it then you would need to take down the feeder(s)for a least a week for them to disperse. Basically it can survive but we can't do much else on our end.