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Diseases of Antarctic Seabirds

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Seabirds are the approximately 300 avian species that feed mainly at sea (Harrison 1983). Nearly all Antarctica’s bird species are seabirds. Of the 43 species breeding south of the Antarctic Convergence, only five live entirely on land. The marine birds include seven species of penguins, 24 of petrels, 2 of cormorants and 5 species of gulls, skuas and terns. Antarctic seabirds that breed on the peripheral islands also fly far south of their breeding latitudes in summer and the Antarctic waters are visited by sub-Antarctic and subtropical breeding species, and also by some species of Arctic seabirds (Stonehouse 1972).

The diseases and veterinary management of seabirds has been reviewed (Pokras 1996; Vogelnest 2000). There is, however, very little information about diseases in the Antarctic seabirds. This chapter limits itself primarily to those diseases reported among Antarctic seabirds, with the emphasis on flying birds. Diseases of penguins have been reviewed by Clarke and Kerry (1993, 2000), however, where relevant for comprehensiveness, research on penguin diseases since these publications, and some earlier research, have also been included.

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Knowles Kerry, Judy Clarke and the Australian Antarctic Division provided guidance, support and access to literature in the early stages of this work. Larry Vogelnest provided comments on an earlier draft of the manuscript. The research of JM Watts, GD Miller and GR Shellam was facilitated by support from the Australian Antarctic Division ASAC grants 953, 1336 and 2555. The University of Western Australia also supported these studies. We also thank the University of New Mexico Biology Department, and the personnel of Davis Station (summers of 1999, 2001 and 2003) and Macquarie Station (2006) for their support. Martin Robertson, John Parkinson and Jenny Hills at the Western Australian Department of Agriculture gave considerable help with the serological analyses. GD Miller was partly funded by NSF Office of Polar programs grant OPP-0086212.

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Woods, R., Jones, H.I., Watts, J., Miller, G.D., Shellam, G.R. (2009). Diseases of Antarctic Seabirds. In: Kerry, K.R., Riddle, M. (eds) Health of Antarctic Wildlife. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-93923-8_3

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