It finaly takes the legs right off them and then they die,i recon the nesting season won't go to well for them either and i predict a nationwide massive drop in numbers of them the next few years,apart from catching them all and trying to treat it indervidualy i can't see any way of helping them either...never heard of or seen it on wild birds, but just reading about it there they say it a mite causes it a bit like scaley face on a budgieif you look at the photo`s i put up, the scaley leg (Mites) are distinguishable from Fringilla papillomavirus that looks like a build up of warts, shown in t