USGS National Wildlife Health Center
Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report January 1998 to March 1998 |
Reported State |
Location |
Dates |
Species |
Mortality |
Diagnosis |
Reported By |
Kenai Peninsula |
AK |
02/10/98-04/15/98 |
Common Redpoll, Unidentified Grosbeak |
50 e |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Kenai Pennisula, Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound |
AK |
02/01/98-04/15/98 |
Common Murre |
Unknown e |
Starvation Suspect |
NW |
Ash Flat |
AR |
01/21/98-02/10/98 |
American Goldfinch |
25 |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Grizzly Island Wildlife Area, Susuin Marsh |
CA |
02/23/98-02/25/98 |
American Coot, American Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Mallard, Gadwall |
1176 e |
Avian Cholera |
CA |
Near Rio Vista Mein's Landing Duck Club |
CA |
12/25/97-01/07/98 |
American Coot, Northern Shoveler, Canvasback, Ruddy Northern Pintail |
400 e |
Avian cholera |
CA |
Palo Alto Flood Flood Basin |
CA |
01/08/98-01/12/98 |
American Coot, American Wigeon, Northern Shoveler, Ruddy Canvasback |
41 |
Avian cholera |
CA |
Sacramento Complex Refuges |
CA |
12/16/97-02/01/98 |
Snow Goose, Ross' Goose, American Wigeon, American Coot, Northern Pintail |
1939 |
Avian cholera |
NW |
Salton Sea |
CA |
03/10/98-ongoing |
Unidentified Dowitcher, Brown Pelican, American White Pelican |
7123 |
Botulism Type C |
NW |
Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area |
CA |
01/06/98-01/14/98 |
Ruddy American Coot, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Unidentified
Bird |
108 |
Avian cholera |
CA |
Atlantic Provinces |
CAN |
01/98-03/30/98 |
Common Redpoll |
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Salmonellosis |
CCW |
Gilchrist Co. & Merritt Island |
FL |
02/01/98-03/15/98 |
Brown-headed Cowbird, Northern Cardinal |
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FL |
Cedar Keys NWR |
FL |
02/25/98-03/24/98 |
Common Loon |
20 e |
Emaciation |
NW |
Gulf Island National Seashore |
FL |
03/16/98-04/15/98 |
Common Loon |
55 e |
Open |
NW |
Islands at mouth of St John's River |
FL |
01/01/98-03/04/98 |
Brown Pelican |
200 |
Open |
NW |
Forney Lake |
IA |
02/09/98-02/28/98 |
Snow Goose |
26 e |
Avian cholera suspect |
NW |
Kaiser Creek |
IL |
02/15/98-02/17/98 |
Bald Eagle |
8 |
Toxicosis suspect |
NW |
Peoria Heights |
IL |
01/01/98-03/01/98 |
American Goldfinch, Pine Siskin |
20 e |
Salmonella |
NW |
Brown County |
IN |
01/01/98-03/01/98 |
Pine Siskin |
11 e |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Lovewell Reservoir |
KS |
03/22/98-03/30/98 |
Snow Goose, Northern Pintail, White-fronted Goose, Mallard, Lesser Scaup |
4941 |
Avian cholera |
NW |
McCreary Co. |
KY |
1/01/97-03/15/98 |
American Goldfinch, Northern Cardinal, Evening Grosbeak |
100e |
Salmonellosis |
SC |
Hadley |
MA |
12/30/97-03/30/98 |
Pine Siskin |
10 e |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Somerset,Waldo Piscataquis Co. |
ME |
03/09/98-04/15/98 |
Common Redpoll, American Goldfinch |
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Salmonellosis |
NW |
Wooded area in Knox Township |
ME |
03/10/98-03/10/98 |
Bohemian Waxwing |
11 |
Hypothermia Suspect |
NW |
26 Co. Area |
MI |
02/10/98-04/30/98 |
Common Redpoll, American Goldfinch, Evening Grosbeak, Northern Cardinal, Pine
Siskin |
277 |
Salmonellosis |
RLW |
Miller,Jackson, Texas Ralls, St.Louis Co. |
MO |
2/01/98-03/31/98 |
Pine Siskin, American Goldfinch |
100's e |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Swan Lake NWR |
MO |
2/01/98-02/18/98 |
Snow Goose, Unidentified Canada Goose |
264 |
Avian cholera |
NW |
Yazoo NWR |
MS |
03/17/98-03/26/98 |
American Coot (Enlarged Spleens) |
35 |
Open |
NW |
Rainwater Basin WMD |
NE |
02/20/98-04/03/98 |
Snow Goose, Northern Pintail, Mallard, White-fronted Goose, Canada Goose |
25779 |
Avian cholera |
NW |
Schenectady, Otsegp, Albany, Saratoga Co. |
NY |
12/13/97-03/30/98 |
House Sparrow, Common Redpoll |
21 |
Salmonellosis |
NY |
Jackson,Lawrence, Hocking,Sandusky Co. |
OH |
01/29/98-04/30/98 |
Pine Siskin, American Goldfinch, White-throated Sparrow |
24 e |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Lake Eucha |
OK |
01/15/98-02/23/98 |
American Goldfinch, Pine Siskin, Purple Finch |
30 e |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Pike Co. |
PA |
01/30/98-02/18/98 |
Pine Siskin |
30 |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Edisto Beach State Park |
SC |
03/25/98-03/25/98 |
Boat-tailed Grackle |
24 |
Toxicosis: Organophosphate |
SC |
Eastland County |
TX |
11/17/97-11/20/97 |
Mallard, Killdeer |
55 e |
Septicemia |
TVD |
Fort Worth |
TX |
12/31/97-01/05/98 |
Greater Scaup, American Wigeon |
20 e |
Botulism type |
CNW |
Near Cameron |
TX |
03/17/98-04/01/98 |
Black-bellied Tree, Common Grackle, Muscovy |
25 e |
Toxicosis; organophosphate or carbamate |
NW |
Carbon |
TX |
12/29/97-01/04/98 |
Northern Pintail |
79 |
Aflatoxicosis |
TVD |
10 County Area |
VT |
01/30/98-04/15/98 |
Common Redpoll, Evening Grosbeak, Pine Grosebeak |
40 |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
Winooski |
VT |
03/12/98-03/12/98 |
Cedar Waxwing |
38 |
Hypothermia Suspect |
NW |
9 Co. Area |
WI |
01/10/98-03/05/98 |
Common Redpoll, Pine Sisken, American Goldfinch, Evening Grosbeak, Chipping
Sparrow |
100 e |
Salmonellosis |
NW |
(e) = estimate; * = morbidity and mortality
REPORTERS: National
Wildlife Health Center (NW); Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease
Study (SC); California Department of Fish and Game-Wildlife Investigations
Laboratory (CA); Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Center (CCW);
Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVD); Laboratory
of Wildlife Disease Research-Gainsville (FL); Rose Lake Wildlife
Disease Laboratory-Michigan (RLW) ; New York Department of Environmental
Conservation (NY)
Written and
compiled by Kathryn Converse, Kimberli Miller, Linda Glaser, Terry
Creekmore, and Audra Schrader, National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC).
To report mortality or if you would like specific information on
these mortalities, contact one of the following NWHC staff: Western
US Kathryn Converse; Eastern US--Kimberli Miller; Hawaiian Islands--Thierry
Work. Phone (608) 270-2400, FAX (608) 270-2415 or E-mail kathy_converse@usgs.gov.
National Wildlife Health Center, 6006 Schroeder Road, Madison, WI
53711.
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For additional information please contact Dr. Scott Wright,
USGS National Wildlife Health Center - Disease Investigations Branch Chief, at 608-270-2460 or
Paul Slota, USGS National Wildlife Health Center - Support Services
Branch Chief at 608-270-2420.
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