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  September 11, 2014

  Winter Eagle Deaths at Great Salt Lake due to West Nile Virus

  Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) diagnosed West Nile Virus (WNV) in numerous eared grebes and bald eagles that died in a 2013 mortality event in the Great Salt Lake (GSL). Diagnoses were based on findings during pathological analysis to determine cause of death, including molecular detection of WNV genetic material in tissues, and isolation of WNV from multiple tissues from each...

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, Contaminant Biology, Environmental Health Program, Wildlife Program (unpublished), National Wildlife Health Center

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  September 11, 2014

  Winter Eagle Deaths at Great Salt Lake due to West Nile Virus

  Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) diagnosed West Nile Virus (WNV) in numerous eared grebes and bald eagles that died in a 2013 mortality event in the Great Salt Lake (GSL). Diagnoses were based on findings during pathological analysis to determine cause of death, including molecular detection of WNV genetic material in tissues, and isolation of WNV from multiple tissues from each...

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  January 4, 2023

  USGS National Wildlife Health Center necropsy results to determine cause of illness/death for seabirds collected in Alaska from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2021

  Summary of Bering and Chukchi Seas seabird necropsies, 2017-2021. More than 14,000 dead seabirds were reported and a total of 117 carcasses were examined. 92 cases had emaciation identified as the Cause Of Death (COD), seven cases where COD was undetermined, and 17 cases where COD was determined as "Other", which included predation, trauma, encephalitis, peritonitis, and bacterial infect

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  National Wildlife Health Center

  February 28, 2022

  Lead (Pb) in Bald and Golden Eagles from 38 United States, USA, 2010-2018

  We evaluated lead poisoning in bald and golden eagles during all seasons of the year and from states in each of the four major flyways throughout the continental USA.

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  Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center

  October 12, 2021

  Dataset: Acute oral toxicity and tissue residues of saxitoxin in the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

  This data set is composed of data collected from an experimental study inoculating mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) with Saxitoxin and associated control ducks. Data includes the specific of inoculation, observational behavioral data, daily weights, dosing, results of inoculation, testing of samples collected throughout the study, and necropsy results.

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  Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center

  April 13, 2021

  Domoic acid and saxitoxin in seabirds from California and Rhode Island 2015-2017

  As harmful algal blooms (HABs) increase in magnitude and duration worldwide, they are becoming an expanding threat to marine wildlife. Over the past decade, domoic acid (DA) and saxitoxin (STX) have been increasingly problematic bicoastally in the United States. We investigated pooled seabird mortality data from opportunistic sampling events between 2007-2018, across three states, to examine the p

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  Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, Species Management Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center

  October 3, 2019

  Data release for Investigation of a largescale common murre (Uria aalge) mortality event in California in 2015

  During 2015, beachcast bird survey programs (Beach Watch and BeachCOMBERS) reported higher than average deposition of common murres (Uria aalge) on central and northern California beaches from August through December. Increased common murre mortality was not reported for southern California beaches. International Bird Rescue (IBR) located in Fairfield, CA and other coastal wildlife rehabilitation

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, Species Management Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center

  April 13, 2018

  Occurrence of Chlamydia sp in apparently healthy birds associated with a mortality event caused by chlamydiosis: Data

  hese data sets are is a compilation of bird and environmental samples obtained from 6 sites in Maricopa County, Arizona on the dates shown. Sites were only visited and sampled if they had Rosy-cheeked lovebirds coming to bird feeders at the location and with the permission of the property owner. Two swab samples were obtained from each captured bird and 3 swab samples were collected from the envir

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, Biological Threats and Invasive Species Research Program, National Wildlife Health Center
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  December 9, 2022

  Partnering in search of answers: Seabird die-offs in the Bering and Chukchi Seas

  Prior to 2015, seabird die-offs in Alaskan waters were rare; they typically occurred in mid-winter, linked to epizootic disease events or above-average ocean temperatures associated with strong El Nino-Southern Oscillation events (Bodenstein et al. 2015, Jones et al. 2019, Romano et al. 2020). Since 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has monitored mortality events that have become an

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, Alaska Science Center, National Wildlife Health Center

  February 17, 2022

  Demographic implications of lead poisoning for eagles across North America

  Lead poisoning occurs worldwide in populations of predatory birds, but exposure rates and population impacts are known only from regional studies. We evaluated the lead exposure of 1210 bald and golden eagles from 38 US states across North America, including 620 live eagles. We detected unexpectedly high frequencies of lead poisoning of eagles, both chronic (46 to 47% of bald and golden eagles, as

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, National Wildlife Health Center

  October 9, 2021

  Acute oral toxicity and tissue residues of saxitoxin in the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)

  Since 2014, widespread, annual mortality events involving multiple species of seabirds have occurred in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Chukchi Sea. Among these die-offs, emaciation was a common finding with starvation often identified as the cause of death. However, saxitoxin (STX) was detected in many carcasses, indicating exposure of these seabirds to STX in the marine environment. Few data

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, Contaminant Biology, Environmental Health Program, Toxic Substances Hydrology, National Wildlife Health Center

  April 1, 2021

  Domoic acid and saxitoxin in seabirds in the United States between 2007 and 2018

  As harmful algal blooms (HABs) increase in magnitude and duration worldwide, they are becoming an expanding threat to marine wildlife. Over the past decade, blooms of algae that produce the neurotoxins domoic acid (DA) and saxitoxin (STX) and documented concurrent seabird mortality events have increased bicoastally in the United States. We conducted a retrospective analysis of HAB related mortalit

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

  January 29, 2021

  Quarterly wildlife mortality report January 2021

  The USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) Quarterly Mortality Report provides brief summaries of epizootic mortality and morbidity events by quarter. The write-ups, highlighting epizootic events and other wildlife disease topics of interest, are published in the Wildlife Disease Association quarterly newsletter. A link is provided in this WDA newsletter to the Wildlife Health Information Sha

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

  July 31, 2020

  Quarterly wildlife mortality report July 2020

  The USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) Quarterly Mortality Report provides brief summaries of epizootic mortality and morbidity events by quarter. The write-ups, highlighting epizootic events and other wildlife disease topics of interest, are published in the Wildlife Disease Association quarterly newsletter. A link is provided in this WDA newsletter to the Wildlife Health Information Sha

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

  January 15, 2020

  Extreme mortality and reproductive failure of common murres resulting from the northeast Pacific marine heatwave of 2014-2016

  About 62,000 dead or dying common murres (Uria aalge), the trophically dominant fish-eating seabird of the North Pacific, washed ashore between summer 2015 and spring 2016 on beaches from California to Alaska. Most birds were severely emaciated and, so far, no evidence for anything other than starvation was found to explain this mass mortality. Three-quarters of murres were found in the Gulf of Al

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center, Alaska Science Center

  March 15, 2019

  Detection of Bisgaard taxon 40 in Rhinoceros Auklets (Cerorhinca monocerata) with pneumonia and septicemia from a mortality event in Washington, USA

  We isolated Bisgaard taxon 40 from Rhinoceros Auklets (Cerorhinca monocerata) with pneumonia and septicemia from Washington, US, found dead in 2016. Previously isolated only from the respiratory tract of a gull (Laridae), little is known about its pathogenic potential and whether it acts as a primary or opportunistic pathogen.

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, Fish & Wildlife Disease (unpublished), National Wildlife Health Center

  January 1, 2019

  USGS-NWHC Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report - January 2019

  The USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) Quarterly Mortality Report provides brief summaries of epizootic mortality and morbidity events by quarter. The write-ups, highlighting epizootic events and other wildlife disease topics of interest, are published in the Wildlife Disease Association quarterly newsletter. A link is provided in this WDA newsletter to the Wildlife Health Information Sha

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

  July 1, 2018

  USGS-NWHC Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report - July 2018

  No abstract available.

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

  May 2, 2018

  USGS-NWHC Quarterly Wildlife Mortality Report- April 2018

  No abstract available.

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, National Wildlife Health Center

  April 10, 2018

  Chlamydia psittaci in feral Rosy-faced Lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis) and other backyard birds in Maricopa County, Arizona

  In 2013, a mortality event of nonnative, feral Rosy-faced Lovebirds (Agapornis roseicollis) in residential backyards in Maricopa County, Arizona, US was attributed to infection with Chlamydia psittaci. In June 2014, additional mortality occurred in the same region. Accordingly, in August 2014 we sampled live lovebirds and sympatric bird species visiting backyard bird feeders to determine the preva

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  Ecosystems Mission Area, Fish & Wildlife Disease (unpublished), National Wildlife Health Center

  Non-USGS Publications**

  Dubey, J.P., Sundar, N., Nolden, C.A., Samuel, M.D., Velmurgan, G.V., Bandini, L., Kwok, O.C., Bodenstein, B., Su, C. 2007. Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from raccoons (Procyon lotor), coyotes (Canis latrans ), and striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) in Wisconsin identified several atypical genotypes. Journal of Parasitology. 93:1524-1527

  Strom SM, Patnode KA, Langenberg JA, Bodenstein BL, Scheuhammer AM. 2005. Lead contamination in American woodcock (Scolopax minor) from Wisconsin. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 49(3):396-402.
  

  **Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.