By Olivia Wynkoop. Bay City News.
State wildlife officials announced that a disease transmitted by a pair has killed hundreds of native California doves.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials said they have noticed an increase in reported sick and dead band-tailed doves since early February, primarily around the Bay of California area, the Central Coast and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
So far this winter, it is estimated that between 200 and 3,000 pigeons have died from avian trichomoniasis, a disease that is mostly caused by the protozoan pair Trichomonas gallinae during some winter seasons.
Infected birds develop lesions