Disease threat to UK garden birds

A disease that first emerged in 2005 is killing large numbers of greenfinches and chaffinches, researchers say.

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The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has blamed a fatal infection caused by the bacterium Trichomonas gallinae.

It said the number of deaths from such an emerging disease was unprecedented.

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Still rare to see a Greenfinch in my garden, when they used to be plentiful, plus Chaffinches seem nowhere near as plentiful.