| use of body measurements and serum metabolites to estimate the nutritional status of mallards wintering in the mississippi alluvial valley, usa. | we collected mallards (anas platyrhynchos) from bottomland hardwood habitats on the bayou meto wildlife management area and the white river national wildlife refuge, arkansas county, arkansas during the winter of 1990 to 1991 to determine if measures of physiological condition could be predicted from structural size, serum metabolite levels, or from direct measures of carcass composition. serum triglyceride levels were correlated (r = 0.57, p = 0.007) with total body fat in males and slightly in ... | 1997 | 9027691 |
| epizootiologic studies of avian vacuolar myelinopathy in waterbirds. | epizootic avian vacuolar myelinopathy (avm) was first recognized as a neurologic disease in bald eagles (haliaeetus leucocephalus) and american coots (fulica americana) in arkansas, usa in 1994 and 1996, respectively, but attempts to identify the etiology of the disease have been unsuccessful to date. between 1998 and 2001, wing clipped sentinel birds (wild american coots and game farm mallards [anas platyrhynchos]) were released at lake surf, north carolina, a lake with recurrent outbreaks of a ... | 2002 | 12528432 |