Field guide to wildlife diseases
By: Milton Friend, editor, Cynthia J. Laitman, technical editor ; Randy Stothard Kampen, illustrator (National Wildlife Health Center).
Contributors: Friend, Milton.; Laitman, Cynthia J.; Kampen, Randy Stothard.; National Wildlife Health Center (U.S.)
Series: Resource publication / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service ;; 167-; Resource publication (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) ;; 167, etc.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Wildlife diseases; Wildlife diseases -- United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. General field procedures and diseases of migratory birds.