West Nile hits the blue jays and the crows, none of the ~nuisance~ birds (starlings, grackles, pigeons) seem to be bothered by it. We've not seen many blue jays around here since 2002 when West Nile hit the Kansas City area but the crow population started coming back last year.
West Nile hits about 200 species of birds, just about any bird except trash birds. The state just glossed over that part. A few years back, I'd find 2 or 3 dead goldfinches or housefinches a day. Now they're back to their regular numbers, and no more bird deaths to any causes except normal predation.
I'd often thought that Edgar Allan Poe must have been on some real drug bender to have imagined a raven saying "Nevermore". That is until we moved here. Those dang crows are as big as some of the wild turkeys, and are so loud, I don't wonder how Poe could have imagined that anymore!