ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Health hazards to wild birds and risk factors associated with anthropogenic food provisioning.
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- Community science as a potential tool to monitor animal demography and human-animal interactions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Supplementary feeding of birds during the winter influences measures of avian community structure in yards in a subtropical city.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Supplementary feeding of birds during the winter influences measures of avian community structure in yards in a subtropical city.PloS one · 2024Article
- Human Salmonellosis Outbreak Linked to Salmonella Typhimurium Epidemic in Wild Songbirds, United States, 2020-2021.Emerging infectious diseases · 2023Article
- The genomic epidemiology of Escherichia albertii infecting humans and birds in Great Britain.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Assessing rates of parasite coinfection and spatiotemporal strain variation via metabarcoding: Insights for the conservation of European turtle doves Streptopelia turtur.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
- How to Start Up a National Wildlife Health Surveillance Programme.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Lack of Evidence That Bird Feeders Are a Source of Salmonellosis during Winter in Poland.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Faecal metabarcoding reveals pervasive long-distance impacts of garden bird feeding.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Aspergillosis in Wild Birds.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- What motivates the masses: Understanding why people contribute to conservation citizen science projects.Biological conservation · 2020Article
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Abstract
Provision of supplementary food for wild birds at garden feeding stations is a common, large-scale and year-round practice in multiple countries including Great Britain (GB). While these additional dietary resources can benefit wildlife, there is a concomitant risk of disease transmission, particularly when birds repeatedly congregate in the same place at high densities and through interactions of species that would not normally associate in close proximity. Citizen science schemes recording garden birds are popular and can integrate disease surveillance with population monitoring, offering a unique opportunity to explore inter-relationships between supplementary feeding, disease epidemiology and population dynamics. Here, we present findings from a national surveillance programme in GB and note the dynamism of endemic and emerging diseases over a 25-year period, focusing on protozoal (finch trichomonosis), viral (Paridae pox) and bacterial (passerine salmonellosis) diseases with contrasting modes of transmission. We also examine the occurrence of mycotoxin contamination of food residues in bird feeders, which present both a direct and indirect (though immunosuppression) risk to wild bird health. Our results inform evidence-based mitigation strategies to minimize anthropogenically mediated health hazards, while maintaining the benefits of providing supplementary food for wild birds.This article is part of the theme issue 'Anthropogenic resource subsidies and host-parasite dynamics in wildlife'.
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