TOP STORIES
Bushfire animal victims recover from Black Saturday
Courier Mail - www.news.com.au
28 Mar 2009
Area: Australia - Map It 
Image Credit: Courier Mail
These bush battlers are slowly hopping and crawling their way to health after being rescued from Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires.
Songbird deaths in Northeastern Wisconsin may be linked to salmonella
The Reporter - fdlreporter.com
30 Mar 2009
Area: Wisconsin, USA - Map It
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary says it has been getting an unusually large number of calls about sick or dead songbirds found under bird feeders, particularly pine siskins, goldfinches and house finches species. The sanctuary staff believes salmonella is the cause, and it is asking residents to do their part in helping to stop it from spreading.
Illnesses, deaths baffle marine center staffThe News-Journal - www.news-journalonline.com
28 Mar 2009
Area: Florida, USA - Map It
Oodles of turtles fill bubbling pools at the Marine Science Center these days as its staff scrambles to keep up with mass strandings along Florida's northeast coast. About 170 turtles, both greens and loggerheads, have been found either dead or sick and emaciated on beaches from Jacksonville to Brevard County since January.
Chronic wasting disease spreading
The Edmonton Journal - www.edmontonjournal.com
27 Mar 2009
Area: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Map It
Eight new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild deer were found as part of the 2008 fall surveillance for the disease, according to provincial government figures. The new cases were found among the 4,347 deer heads that have been tested since last Sept. 1.
Dead Birds Washing Up
VOCM - vocm.com
27 Mar 2009
Area: Newfoundland / Labrador, Canada - Map It
Testing is being done on several dead birds that are washing ashore on the Avalon and Bonavista Peninsulas. Wildlife officials say that starvation has been noted in a number of the birds examined. Well over 100 dead birds have been collected to date with more expected to come ashore. Recovery of more birds on the Avalon and Bonavista Peninsulas continues.
For Migrating Birds, Eating = ExerciseScience Now - sciencenow.sciecenmag.org
27 Mar 2009
Image Credit: JM Weber
Athletes aren't the only ones who improve their performance by doping. A new study suggests that migrating birds can also boost their fitness without exercise or effort--simply by eating.
OTHER WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED NEWS
- Federal eider rules may limit Alaska subsistence hunting
- Turtle meat highly sought
- Did jaguar Macho B have to die?
- DNR needs plan to deal with elk herd
- Ample evidence Florida's feeling effects of climate change
- Quarantined park bison headed out of state
- Spared from slaughter, bison will move to Wyoming
- From a mired past, new hope for Fox River
- Ontario County cheers as DEC nets fish stats
WILDLIFE DISEASE RELATED PUBLICATIONS
Browse complete Digest publications library here.
Geographic Variation of Strontium and Hydrogen Isotopes in Avian Tissue: Implications for Tracking Migration and Dispersal
PLoS ONE. 2009; 4(3): e4735 [free full-text available]
MJ Sellick et al.
Molecular Characterization of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza A Viruses Isolated from Raccoon Dogs in China.
PLoS ONE. 2009; 4(3): e4682 [free full-text available]
X Qi et al.
Differential virulence in a multiple-host parasite of bumble bees: resolving the paradox of parasite survival?
Oikos. 2009; [Epub ahead of print]
Samina T. Rutrecht and Mark J. F. Brown
Organization of Fish and Wildlife Information Managers Newsletter
Spring Issue 2009
No comments:
Post a Comment