| Summary Information |
| Diseases / List of Physical / Traumatic
Diseases / Disease summary |
| Alternative Names |
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| Disease Agents |
Ice,
particularly when rapidly-forming. Freezing temperatures,
particularly rapidly dropping temperature causing rapid freezing (B36.51.w51). |
| Infectious
Agent(s) |
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| Non-infectious
Agent(s) |
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| Physical
Agent(s) |
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| General Description |
- Waterfowl becoming trapped with e.g. feathers and/or feet frozen into the ice.
(B15,
B36.51.w51,
B126). |
| Further Information |
- Waterfowl trapped in ice are vulnerable to predation.
- Severe traumatic injuries may result as birds try to free themselves.
(B36.51.w51). |
| Associated Techniques |
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| Host taxa groups /species |
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| Disease has been reported in either the wild or
in captivity in the following WATERFOWL Species: |
[N.B. Miscellaneous
/ Traumatic Diseases tend to be under-reported and the majority are likely to affect all
waterfowl species, given exposure to the related disease agents/factors.]
- Canada geese Branta canadensis trapped by high winds preventing flight
and splashing water over the birds at the same time as rapidly-dropping temperatures (B36.51.w51).
- Ducks (B126).
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| Disease has been reported in free-ranging
populations of the following WATERFOWL Species: |
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