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Concern over rapid decline in number of vultures in Bikaner
Daily India - dailyindia.com
2 Feb 2009
Photo Credit: Reuters
Area: Bikaner, India -
Vultures, which used to flock from distant lands in great numbers in Bikaner during the winter season, seem to have vanished to a great extent this year...Research on the declining number of vultures has indicated that these kites die due to consumption of the carcasses of dairy livestock treated with an anti-inflammatory drug Diclofenac Sodium.
Hatchery seeks clues in salmon egg die-offBangor Daily News - bangornews.com
1 Feb 2009
K Miller
Photo Credit: JC Russ
Area: Maine - Map It
Biologists are scrambling to figure out what killed an estimated 800,000 Atlantic salmon eggs at the federal government’s Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery in recent months.
Daily Herald - heraldextra.com
1 Feb 2009
C Warnock
Photo Credit: M Ruiz
Area: Utah, United States - Map It
On Saturday, the future of Utah's bighorn sheep hung in the balance as volunteers spread pneumonia medication, mixed with hay and sliced apples, over the frozen mountain above Cedar Hills. Biologists are hoping the pellets of anti-parasitic medication can stave off the biological battle that sheep and state officials have been waging against Mother Nature in order to stabilize the sheep population.
'Hot spot' for toxic harmful algal blooms discovered off Washington coast
Biology News Net - biologynews.net
1 Feb 2009
Area: Washington, United States - Map It
A part of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates Washington state from Canada's British Columbia, is a potential "hot spot" for toxic harmful algal blooms affecting the Washington and British Columbia coasts.
Migratory birds suspected in B.C. avian flu cases
Seattle Times - seattletimes.nwsource.com
2 Feb 2009
Area: British Colombia, Canada - Map It
Three of four of the latest avian-flu outbreaks in Canada have been in the Fraser Valley, possibly because of the region's popularity with migratory waterfowl, experts say. In the latest outbreak, that H5 strain of the virus was detected in some turkeys on a property owned by two brothers in January, and 60,000 turkeys were culled on an Abbotsford farm last week.
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
- In pictures: Tanzania's toad haul [pictured right]
- New York Times Book Review: Biography of John Muir
- Southland cleared of bovine TB [New Zealand]
- Flame retardants alter thyroid function in fish.
- States fail in latest prairie dog report card
- More dead birds found on Lantau [Hong Kong - Avian Influenza]
- Conservation groups wary of preserve where chronic wasting disease reigned
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
Emerging Infectious Diseases - February 2009
Volume 15, Number 2,
Risk mapping of highly pathogenic Avian Influenza distribution and spread
Ecology and Society. 2008; 13(2): 15 [free full-text available]
AT Peterson and RAJ Williams
Wild bird movements and avian influenza risk mapping in southern Africa.
Ecology and Society.2008; 13(2): 26 [free full-text available]
GS Cumming et al
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