Research Catalog

Title

Field guide to wildlife diseases. Volume 1, General field procedures and diseases of migratory birds / Milton Friend, editor ; Cynthia J. Laitman, technical editor ; Randy Stothard Kampen, illustrator (National Wildlife Health Center).

Publication

Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Friend, Milton.
• Laitman, Cynthia J.
• National Wildlife Health Center (U.S.)
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Description

vii, 225 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.

Summary

This Field Guide to Wildlife Diseases is the first publication to provide wildlife field personnel with current scientific information about wildlife diseases in an easily understandable and eminently practical form. It provides a readable text supported by appropriate illustrations and photographs on how to collect, prepare, and submit wildlife specimens for postmortem examination. In addition, the Guide contains specific chapters on the major diseases of wild birds. These are written to help field personnel to understand and recognize these diseases and to provide an appropriate course of action involving the integration and utilization of the services of wildlife health specialists.

Series Statement

Resource publication / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service ; 167

Uniform Title

Resource publication (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) ; 167.

Subject

• Migratory birds > Diseases
• Migratory birds > Diseases > United States
• Wildlife diseases
• Wildlife diseases > United States
• United States

Genre/Form

• field guides.
• Field guides.
• Guides d'identification.

Note

• No other volume published.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

v. 1. General field procedures and diseases of migratory birds.

LCCN

87600247

OCLC

• ocm16404543
• 16404543
• SCSB-9469676

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library