This bird’s tail is being temporarily marked with red paint for short-term spotting during a 1974 arbovirus field study.
The study of bird-based arbovirus infections is important because birds serve as the vertebrate reservoir hosts in the transmission cycle of numerous arboviruses, including the West Nile virus.
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