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Alaska Science Center - Avian Influenza Research

This web resource provides information concerning the on-going Research at the USGS Alaska Science Center on birds and avian influenza (bird flu). The site links to quick facts, on-going research, workshop results, monitoring and surveillance, guidelines on how to safeguard against avian influenza, publications and reports, migratory bird More...

  • Bar-tailed Godwits Roosting

Impacts of Introduced Avian Diseases on the Decline and Extinction of Native Hawaiian Honeycreepers

How is avian pox and malaria impacting native Hawaiian honeycreepers? USGS scientists in Hawaii conduct surveys, develop new diagnostic tools, and test management strategies to understand the impacts of these introduced vector borne diseases on native Hawaiian wildlife.

  • Anianianu from the Alakai Wilderness Preserve, Kauai. Photo credit: USGS

Epidemiology of Fish and Wildlife Diseases: Birds

This web page present samples of genetics and genomics research from the USGS Biological Resources Discipline about the epidemiology of avian diseases.

  • A female Northern Pintail marked with a solar-powered satellite transmitter.

Hawaiian Native Birds Research

Introduction to Hawaiian studies of native birds: Hawaiian forest birds, endangered Palila (Loxioides baillieu), endangered Nene (Branta sandvicensis), birds elsewhere in the Pacific, waterbirds and seabirds, and endangered Laysan ducks (Anas laysanensis).

  • Male Laysan Duck. Photo by Evan Jorgenson, USFWS volunteer