During a telemetry study conducted between 1993 and 1995 in east-central Kansas (USA) on northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) populations, a wild adult male quail was found with signs of disorientation and torticollis in August 1994 in Lyon County, Kansas. Based on histological and parasitological examination, it was determined that the bird was infected with larval nematodes of the genus Baylisascaris spp. This is the first known recorded case of Baylisascaris sp. in a wild game bird species.
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1 January 1997
Baylisascaris sp. Found in a Wild Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)
Christopher K. Williams,
Richard D. McKown,
Johna K. Veatch,
Roger D. Applegate
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Vol. 33 • No. 1
January 1997
Vol. 33 • No. 1
January 1997
Baylisascaris sp.
cerebrospinal nematodiasis
Colinus virginianus
histopathology
Kansas
northern bobwhite