Pigeons

http://news.scotsman.com/latest_international.cfm?id=797742006

While songbirds fed in backyard feeders do not seem at risk, my favorite boyhood bird does seem to be in trouble. One of the Indonesian deaths was due to a fellow cleaning pigeon feces out of a gutter. And this story of a pigeon game stopped shows the extent that the bird flu has affected raising pigeons. I'm wondering what will happen to all the pigeon racers here if migratory birds bring the bird flu this way.

Of course, Indonesia just goes about business as usual:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060520/ap_on_he_me/bird_flu_ignored_warnings

And is isn't that there wasn't other warnings:

http://discuss.agonist.org/smf/?board=6%3baction=display%3bthreadid=20552

Other pigeon notes, some of them reassuring:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200510/s1487872.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12466226/

http://www.purebredpigeon.com/avianflu.htm

http://www.healthcentral.com/newsdetail/408/1508144.html