| investigation of a mortality cluster in wild adult yellow-eyed penguins (megadyptes antipodes) at otago peninsula, new zealand. | we investigated an epidemic mortality cluster of yellow-eyed penguins (megadyptes antipodes) that involved 67 moribund or dead birds found on various beaches of the otago peninsula, new zealand, between january 21 and march 20, 2013. twenty-four carcases were examined postmortem. histological lesions of pulmonary, hepatic and splenic erythrophagocytosis and haemosiderosis were found in 23 of 24 birds. fifteen birds also had haemoglobin-like protein droplets within renal tubular epithelial cells. ... | 2016 | 27919180 |