Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Blame bug on the birdwatchers! Tabloid newspaper points accusatory finger at gull-watching birders

 


A reader of The Wryneck  has submitted this headline from a recent edition of The Sun newspaper in its coverage of the virus infection on board a cruise ship in the Atlantic. The report indicates that the bug came from rats which were scuttling about a landfill site where birders were on the look-out for rare gulls which frequently scavenge such habitats. But the headline seems to be a 'downer' on birders, implicating them, as much as  the rodents,  for the infection.

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