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WILSON JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY
Volume 121, Issue 3, Pages 641-644Publisher
WILSON ORNITHOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1676/08-148.1
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- Wisconsin Society for Ornithology and the Biology Department
- Personnel Development Committee
- Letters and Science Enhancement Fund
- Wisconsin Cooperative Fishery Research Unit at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
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Trichomoniasis is a digestive tract disease caused by ingestion of the protozoan Trichomonas gallinae. This disease can be a significant source of mortality. No deaths of nestlings could be attributed to trichomoniasis in Cooper's Hawks (Accipiter cooperii) breeding in urban and rural environs in Wisconsin, North Dakota, and British Columbia. We detected T. gallinae in four (5.2%) of 77 nestling Cooper's Hawks during 2006 and 2007 among 42 urban nests on new study areas in southeast Wisconsin and eastern North Dakota/western Minnesota. All four infected young fledged. We did not detect T. gallinae in 52 breeding adult Cooper's Hawks on two urban study sites, nor in 28 migrant hatching year (it = 24) and adult (n = 4) Cooper's Hawks at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, Duluth, Minnesota in 2006-2007. Overall, we detected T. gallinae in only 2.5% of 157 Cooper's Hawks in northcentral North America. These results suggest a low prevalence of T. gallinae in Cooper's Hawks in the northern part of this hawk's breeding range.
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