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1 July 1981 COCCIDIA OF ALEUTIAN CANADA GEESE
ELLIS C. GREINER, DONALD J. FORRESTER, JAMES W. CARPENTER, DAN R. YPARRAGUIRRE
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Abstract

Fecal samples from 122 captive and 130 free-ranging Aleutian Canada geese (Branta canadensis leucopareia) were examined for oocysts of coccidia. Free-ranging geese sampled on the spring staging ground near Crescent City, California were infected with Eimeria hermani, E. truncata, E. magnalabia, E. fulva, E. clarkei and Tyzzeria parvula. Except for E. clarkei, the same species of coccidia were found in geese on their breeding grounds in Alaska. Most of the coccidial infections in captive geese from Amchitka Island, Alaska and Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Maryland consisted of Tyzzeria.

GREINER, FORRESTER, CARPENTER, and YPARRAGUIRRE: COCCIDIA OF ALEUTIAN CANADA GEESE 1
ELLIS C. GREINER, DONALD J. FORRESTER, JAMES W. CARPENTER, and DAN R. YPARRAGUIRRE "COCCIDIA OF ALEUTIAN CANADA GEESE ," Journal of Wildlife Diseases 17(3), 365-370, (1 July 1981). https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-17.3.365
Received: 5 December 1980; Published: 1 July 1981
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