U.S. Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications
The mission of USDA APHIS Wildlife Services (WS) is to provide federal leadership and expertise to resolve wildlife conflicts to allow people and wildlife to coexist. Wildlife Services conducts program delivery, research, and other activities through its regional and state offices, the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC), its field stations, as well as through its national programs.
2013
Spatial Ecology of Urban Raccoons in Northeastern Ohio: Implications for Oral Rabies Vaccination, Are R. Berentsen, Mike R. Dunbar, Chadd E. Fitzpatrick, and W. David Walter
Neospora caninum Exposure in Overlapping Populations of Coyotes (Canis latrans) and Feral Swine (Sus scrofa), Sarah N. Bevins, Emily Blizzard, Luis Bazan, and Pat Whitley
Bat incidents with U.S. civil aircraft, Kristen M. Biondi, Jerrold L. Belant, Travis L. Devault, James A. Martin, and Guiming Wang
Managing Airport Stormwater to Reduce Attraction to Wildlife, Bradley F. Blackwell, David Felstul, and Thomas W. Seamans
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 9 Managing Airport Stormwater to Reduce Attraction to Wildlife, Bradley F. Blackwell, David Felstul, and Thomas W. Seamans
Behavior and Physiology in the Development and Application of Visual Deterrents at Airports, Bradley F. Blackwell and Esteban Fernandez-Juricic
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 2 Behavior and Physiologyin the Development and Application of Visual Deterrents at Airports, Bradley F. Blackwell and Esteban Fernandez-Juricic
Avian Survey Methods for Use at Airports, Bradley F. Blackwell, Paige M. Schmidt, and James A. Martin
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 14 Avian Survey Methods for Use at Airports, Bradley F. Blackwell, Paige M. Schmidt, and James A. Martin
A framework for managing airport grasslands and birds amidst conflicting priorities, Bradley F. Blackwell, Thomas W. Seamans, Paige M. Schmidt, Travis L. Devault, Jerrold L. Belant, Mark J. Whittingham, James A. Martin, and Esteban Fernández-Juricic
Factors affecting survival and cause-specific mortality of saiga calves in Mongolia, Bayarbaatar Buuveibaatar, Julie K. Young, Joel Berger, Amanda E. Fine, Badamjav Lkhagvasuren, Peter Zahler, and Todd K. Fuller
Changes in grouping patterns of saiga antelope in relation to intrinsic and environmental factors in Mongolia, B. B. Buuveibaatar, T. K. Fuller, A. E. Fine, B. Chimeddorj, J. K. Young, and J. Berger
Effectiveness and target-specificity of a novel design of food dispenser to deliver a toxin to feral swine in the United States, Tyler A. Campbell, Justin A. Foster, Michael J. Bodenchuk, John D. Eisemann, Linton Staples, and Steven J. Lapidge
Wildlife Contact Rates at Artificial Feeding Sites in Texas, Tyler A. Campbell, David Long, and Susan A. Shriner
Laboratory efficacy of an anthraquinone-based repellent for reducing bird damage to ripening corn, James C. Carlson, Shelagh K. Tupper, Scott J. Werner, Susan E. Pettit, Michele M. Santer, and George M. Linz
Costs of raccoon rabies incidents in cattle herds in Hampshire County, West Virginia, and Guernsey County, Ohio, Richard B. Chipman, Tyler W. Cozzens, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Rita Biswas, Jewell Plumley, Jeanette O'Quin, Timothy P. Algeo, Charles E. Rupprecht, and Dennis Slate
Effectiveness of Chemical Repellents In Managing Birds at Airports, Larry Clark and Michael L. Avery
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 3 Effectiveness of Chemical Repellents in Managing Birds at Airports, Larry Clark and Michael L. Avery
PREVALENCE OF AVIAN PARAMYXOVIRUS 1 AND AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS IN DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS (PHALACROCORAX AURITUS) IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA, Tiffanie A. Cross, D. M. Arsnoe, R. B. Minnis, D. T. King, S. Swafford, K. Pedersen, and J. C. Owen
WiIdIife Translocation as a Management Alternative at Airports, Paul D. Curtis, Jonathon D. Cepek, Rebecca Mihalco, Thomas W. Seamans, and Scott R. Craven
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 6 Wildlife Translocation as a Management Alternative at Airports, Paul D. Curtis, Jonathon D. Cepek, Rebecca Mihalco, Thomas W. Seamans, and Scott R. Craven
Effects of local-scale removals on feral swine populations in southern Texas, Johanna Delgado-Acevedo, Randy W. DeYoung, and Tyler A. Campbell
Rethinking airport land-cover paradigms: agriculture, grass, and wildlife hazards, Travis L. DeVault, Michael J. Begier, Jerrold L. Belant, Bradley F. Blackwell, Richard A. Dolbeer, James A. Martin, Thomas W. Seamans, and Brian E. Washburn
Wildlife in Airport Environments Preventing Animal-Aircraft Collisions through Science-Based Management, Travis L. DeVault, Bradley F. Blackwell, and Jerrold L. Belant
Identification and Management of Wildlife Food Resources at Airports, Travis L. DeVault and Brian E. Washburn
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 8 Identification and Management of Wildlife Food Resources at Airports, Travis L. DeVault and Brian E. Washburn
Leptospirosis in Fox Squirrels (Sciurus niger) of Larimer County, Colorado, USA, Katherine Dirsmith, Kaci K. VanDalen, Tricia Fry, Brad Charles, Kurt C. VerCauteren, and Colleen Duncan
The History of Wildlife Strikes and Management at Airports, Richard A. Dolbeer
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 1 The History of Wildlife Strikes and Management at Airports, Richard A. Dolbeer
Population Management to Reduce the Risk of WiId life-Aircraft Collisions, Richard A. Dolbeer and Alan B. Franklin
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 7 Population Management to Reduce the Risk of Wildlife-Aircraft Collisions, Richard A. Dolbeer and Alan B. Franklin
Experimental infection of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with Northern European bluetongue virus serotype 8, Barbara S. Drolet, Lindsey M. Reister, Tara D. Rigg, Pauline Nol, Brendan K. Podell, James O. Mecham, Kurt C. Vercauteren, Piet A. van Rijn, William C. Wilson, and Richard Bowen
Isolation and genetic characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from mute swan (Cygnus olor) from the USA, J. P. Dubey, S. Choudhary, O. C. H. Kwok, L.R. Ferreira, S. Oliveira, S.K. Verma, D.R. Marks, K. Pedersen, R.M. Mickley, A.R. Randall, D. Asnoe, and C. Su
STATE-LEVEL APPROACHES TO MANAGING THE USE OF CONTRACEPTIVES IN WILDLIFE IN THE UNITED STATES, John D. Eisemann, Jeanette R. O'Hare, and Kathleen A. Fagerstone
Multidisciplinary Approach to Epizootiology and Pathogenesis of Bat Rabies Viruses in the United States, J. A. Ellison, S. R. Johnson, N. Kuzmina, A. T. Gilbert, W. C. Carson, Kurt C. Vercauteren, and C. E. Rupprecht
Assessing spatial variation and overall density of aerially broadcast toxic bait during a rat eradication on Palmyra Atoll, Richard M. Engeman, William C. Pitt, Are R. Berentsen, and John D. Eisemann
Monitoring wild pig populations: a review of methods, R. M. Engeman, G. Massei, M. Sage, and M. N. Gentle
Procedures for Identifying Infectious Prions After Passage Through the Digestive System of an Avian Species, Justin W. Fischer, Tracy A. Nichols, Gregory E. Phillips, and Kurt C. VerCauteren
Could avian scavengers translocate infectious prions to disease-free areas initiating new foci of chronic wasting disease?, Justin W. Fischer, Gregory E. Phillips, Tracy A. Nichols, and Kurt C. VerCauteren
BROWNIAN BRIDGE MOVEMENT MODELS TO CHARACTERIZE BIRDS’ HOME RANGES, Justin W. Fischer, W. David Walter, and Michael L. Avery
Use of stormwater impoundments near airports by birds recognizedas hazardous to aviation safety, Brian J. Fox, Wesley B. Holland, Frank L. Boyd, Bradley F. Blackwell, and James B. Armstrong
Wild Ungulates as Disseminators of Shiga Toxin- Producing Escherichia coli in Urban Areas, Alan B. Franklin, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Hugh Maguire, Mary K. Cichon, Justin W. Fischer, Michael J. Lavelle, Amber Powell, J. Jeffrey Root, and Elaine Scallan
The safety of ONRAB® in select non-target wildlife, Tricia L. Fry, Kaci K. VanDalen, Colleen Duncan, and Kurt C. VerCauteren
Humoral immune response to oral rabies vaccination in raccoon kits: Problems and implications, Tricia L. Fry, Kaci K. VanDalen, Susan A. Shriner, Susan M. Moore, Cathleen A. Hanlon, and Kurt C. Vercauteren
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 13 Radar Technology to Monitor Hazardous Birds at Airports, Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr. and Paige M. Schmidt
The Influence of Snowmobile Trails on Coyote Movements during Winter in High-Elevation Landscapes, Eric M. Gese, Jennifer L. B. Dowd, and Lise M. Aubry
Deciphering Serology to Understand the Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Wildlife, Amy T. Gilbert, A. R. Fooks, D. T. S. Hayman, D. L. Horton, T. Muller, R. Plowright, A. J. Peel, R. Bowen, J. L. Wood, J. Miils, A. A. Cunningham, and C. E. Rupprecht
The Effect of Social Hierarchy on Captive Coyote (Canis latrans) Foraging Behavior, Lynne B. Gilbert-Norton, Ryan R. Wilson, and John A. Shivik
Determination of an Immunocontraceptive Peptide in a Wildlife Vaccine Formulation, David A. Goldade, Jeffrey M. Kemp, Jeanette R. O'Hare, and Lowell A. Miller
Complete Genome Sequence of an Avian Bornavirus Isolated from a Healthy Canadian Goose (Branta canadensis), Jianhua Guo, John Baroch, Adam Randall, and Ian Tizard
Report to the City of Chicago on Conflicts with Ring-billed Gulls and the 2012 Integrated Ring-billed Gull Damage Management Project, J. W. Hartmann, S. F. Beckerman, Richard M. Engeman, and T. W. Seamans
Report to the Chicago Park District on Conflicts with Ring-billed Gulls and the 2013 Integrated Ring-billed Gull Damage Management Project, J. W. Hartmann, T. G. Guerrant, S. F. Beckerman, R. M. Engeman, and T. W. Seamans
Ecology of Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in Bats: Current Knowledge and Future Directions, D. T. S. Hayman, R. A. Bowen, P. M. Cryan, G. M. McCracken, T. J. O'Shea, A. J. Peel, A. T. Gilbert, C. T. Webb, and J. L. N. Wood
Effects of Deer Density and Land Use on Mass of White-Tailed Deer, Trevor J. Hefley, Scott E. Hygnstrom, Jason M. Gilsdorf, Gregory M. Clements, Myndi J. Clements, Andrew J. Tyre, David M. Baasch, and Kurt C. VerCauteren
Deer-activated bioacoustic frightening device deters white-tailed deer, Aaron M. Hildreth, Scott E. Hygnstrom, and Kurt C. VerCauteren
An analytical framework for quantifying and testing patterns of temporal dynamics in social networks, Elizabeth A. Hobson, Michael L. Avery, and Timothy F. Wright
Use of dairies by postreproductive flocks of European starlings, H. Jeffrey Homan, Jeffrey T. LeJeune, D. L. Pearl, T. W. Seamans, Thomas W. Seamans, A.A. Slowik, Mark R. Morasch, and George M. Linz
Comparison of two models for estimating mortality from baitings with Compound DRC-1339 Concentrate avicide, H. Jeffrey Homan, Randal S. Stahl, and George M. Linz
Use of dairies by postreproductive flocks of European starlings, H. J. Homan; Jeffrey T. LeJeune; David L. Pearl; T. W, Seamans; A. A. Slowik; Mark R. Morasch; and G. M. Linz
Comparison of two models for estimating mortality from baitings with Compound DRC-1339 Concentrate avicide, Jeffrey H. Homan, Randal S. Stahl, and George M. Linz
Stream hierarchy defines riverscape genetics of a North American desert fish, Matthew W. Hopken, Marlis R. Douglas, and Michael E. Douglas
Why Can’t Rodents Vomit? A Comparative Behavioral, Anatomical, and Physiological Study, Charles C. Horn, Bruce A. Kimball, Hong Wang, James Kaus, Samuel Dienel, Allysa Nagy, Gordon R. Gathright, Bill J. Yates, and Paul L. R. Andrews
Isolation and molecular characterization of Fikirini rhabdovirus, a novel virus from a Kenyan bat, Rebekah C. Kading, Amy T. Gilbert, Eric C. Mossel, Mary B. Crabtree, Ivan V. Kuzmin, Michael Niezgoda, Bernard Agwanda, Wanda Markotter, M. Ryan Weil, Joel M. Montgomery, Charles E. Rupprecht, and Barry R. Miller
TUPINAMBIS MERIANAE(Argentine Giant Tegu); PANTHERO- PHIS GUTTATUS (Red Cornsnake). NON-PREDATORY KILLING, Bernard W. Kaiser, Kimberly J. Osorio, Kevin M. Enge, and Richard M. Engeman
Avian Influenza Infection Alters Fecal Odor in Mallards, Bruce A. Kimball, Kunio Yamazaki, Dennis Kohler, Richard A. Bowen, Jack P. Muth, Maryanne Opiekun, and Gary K. Beauchamp
Home Ranges and Habitat Use of Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, D. Tommy King, Buddy L. Goatchter, Justin W. Fischer, John Stanton, James M. Lacour, Scott C. Lemmons, and Guiming Wang
Comparisons between blackbird damage to corn and sunflower in North Dakota, Megan E. Klosterman, George M. Linz, Anthony Slowik, and H. Jeffrey Homan
A Comparison of Methods for Monitoring Kit Foxes at Den Sites, Bryan M. Kluever, Eric M. Gese, Steven J. Dempsey, and Robert N. Knight
Assessing wolves and cougars as conservation surrogates, Kyran E. Kunkel, T. C. Atwood, T. K. Ruth, Daniel H. Pletscher, and M. G. Hornocker
Characterization of Regionally Associated Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) in Bobcats (Lynx rufus), Danielle M. Lagana, Justin S. Lee, Jesse S. Lewis, Sarah N. Bevins, Scott Carver, Linda L. Sweanor, Roy McBride, Caleb McBride, Kevin R. Crooks, and Sue VandeWoude
Feral swine brucellosis in the United States and prospective genomic techniques for disease epidemiology, Owen P. Leiser, Joseph L. Corn, Brandon S. Schmit, Paul S. Keim, and Jeffrey T. Foster
Feral cat management, Christopher A. Lepcyzk, Sheila Conant, David Duffy, David M. Bird, Michael Calver, Fern P. Duval, Michael Hutchins, Cheryl A. Lohr, Kerrie Anne Loyd, Peter P. Marra, William C. Pitt, Grant Sizemore, Rachel Sprague, Stanley A. Temple, Yolanda van Heezik, and George Wallace
Demonstration of Avian Control® bird repellent (a.i., methyl anthranilate) for managing blackbird damage to ripening sunflower., George M. Linz and H. Jeffrey Homan
Avian mortality at communication towers in the United States and Canada: which species, how many, and where?, Travis Longcore, Catherine Rich, Pierre Mineau, Beau MacDonald, Daniel G. Bert, Lauren M. Sullivan, Erin Mutrie, Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr., Michael L. Avery, Robert L. Crawford, Albert M. Manville II, Emilie R. Travis, and David Drake
A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special?, Angela D. Luis, David T. S. Hayman, Thomas J. O'Shea, Paul M. Cryan, Amy T. Gilbert, Juliet R. C. Pulliam, James N. Mills, Mary E. Timonin, Craig K. R. Willis, Andrew A. Cunningham, Anthony R. Fooks, Charles E. Rupprecht, James L. N. Wood, and Colleen T. Webb
Wildlife Conservation and Alternative Land Uses at Airports, James A. Martin, Tara J. Conkling, Jerrold L. Belant, Kristin M. Biondi, Bradley F. Blackwell, Travis L. DeVault, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Paige M. Schmidt, and Thomas W. Seamans
Wildlife in Airport Environments: Chapter 11 Wildlife Conservation and Alternative Land Uses at Airports, James A. Martin, Tara J. Conkling, Jerrold L. Belant, Kristin M. Biondi, Bradley F. Blackwell, Travis L. DeVault, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Paige M. Schmidt, and Thomas W. Seamans
Nonsurgical fertility control for managing free-roaming dog populations: A review of products and criteria for field applications, Giovanna Massei and Lowell A. Miller
Efficacy of Electronet Fencing for Excluding Coyotes: A Case Study for Enhancing Production of Black-Footed Ferrets, Marc R. Matchett, Stewart W. Breck, and John Callon
Pheromonal control of the invasive brown treesnake: potency of female sexual attractiveness pheromone varies with ovarian state, Tom Mathies, Breanna Levine, Richard M. Engeman, and Julie A. Savidge
The use of DiazaCon™ to limit fertility by reducing serum cholesterol in female grey squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis, Brenda A. Mayle, Mark Ferryman, Andrew Peace, Christi A. Yoder, Lowell A. Miller, and David Cowan
TWENTY YEARS OF IMMUNOCONTRACEPTIVE RESEARCH: LESSONS LEARNED, Lowell A. Miller, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, and Douglas C. Eckery
Use of a GnRH vaccine, GonaConTM, for prevention and treatment ofadrenocortical disease (ACD) in domestic ferrets, Lowell A. Miller, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, Robert A. Wagner, and Mark Finkler
Is propagule size the critical factor in predicting introduction outcomes in passeriform birds?, Michael P. Moulton, Wendell P. Cropper Jr., and Michael L. Avery
Intranasal Inoculation of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with Lyophilized Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Particulate Complexed to Montmorillonite Clay, Tracy A. Nichols, Terry R. Spraker, Tara D. Rigg, Crystal Meyerett-Reid, Clare Hoover, Brady Michel, Jifeng Bian, Edward Hoover, Thomas Gidlewski, Aru Balachandran, Katherine O'Rourke, Glenn C. Telling, Richard Bowen, Mark D. Zabel, and Kurt C. VerCauteren
Open Field Test with Avipel Bird Repellent: Year I, Megan Niner, George M. Linz, Jeffrey Homan, and Mark Clark
FAILURE OF TRANSMISSION OF LOW-PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS BETWEEN MALLARDS AND FRESHWATER SNAILS: AN EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION, Paul T. Oesterle, Kathryn P. Huyvaert, Darcy Orahood, Nicole Mooers, Heather Sullivan, Alan B. Franklin, and J. Jeffrey Root
Detection of Avian Influenza Viruses in Wild Waterbirds in the Rift Valley of Kenya Using Fecal Sampling, Victor O. Ofula, Alan B. Franklin, J. Jeffrey Root, Heather J. Sullivan, Patrick Gichuki, Albina Makio, Wallace Bulimo, Bernard O. Abong'o, Muchane Muchai, and David Schnabel
Pseudorabies in Feral Swine in the United States, 2009–2012, Kerri Pedersen, Sarah N. Bevins, John A. Baroch, James C. Cumbee Jr., Shannon C. Chandler, Billy S. Woodruff, Troy T. Bigelow, and Thomas J. DeLiberto
PSEUDORABIES (AUJESZKY’S DISEASE), Kerri Pedersen and Yvonne Nadler
Large-scale rodent control reduces pre- and post-dispersal seed predation of the endangered Hawaiian lobeliad, Cyanea superba subsp. superba (Campanulaceae), Richard J. Pender, Aaron B. Shiels, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, and Stephen M. Mosher
Molecular phylogeny of an ancient rodent family (Aplodontiidae), Antoinette J. Piaggio, Brett A. Coghlan, Allyson E. Miscampbell, Wendy M. Arjo, Douglas B. Ransome, and Carol E. Ritland
Detecting an elusive invasive species: a diagnostic PCR to detect Burmese python in Florida waters and an assessment of persistence of environmental DNA, Antoinette J. Piaggio, Richard M. Engeman, Matthew W. Hopken, John S. Humphrey, Kandy L. Keacher, William E. Bruce, and Michael L. Avery
ON THE EDGE: A GENETIC ASSESSMENT OF APLODONTIA RUFA FROM THE EDGE OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION, Antoinette J. Piaggio and Jennifer Jeffers
Immunization with a Synthetic Peptide Vaccine Fails to Protect Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) from Chronic Wasting Disease, John L. Pilon, Jack C. Rhyan, Lisa L. Wolfe, Tracy R. Davis, Matt P. McCollum, Katherine I. O'Rourke, Terry R. Spraker, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Michael W. Miller, Thomas Gidlewski, Tracy A. Nichols, Lowell A. Miller, and Pauline Nol
Patterns of Human–Coyote Conflicts in the Denver Metropolitan Area, Sharon A. Poessel, Stewart W. Breck, Tara L. Teel, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Kevin R. Crooks, and Lisa Angeloni
Den attendance patterns in swift foxes during pup rearing: varying degrees of parental investment within the breeding pair, Sharon A. Poessel and Eric M. Gese
Graphically Characterizing the Movement of a Rabid Striped Skunk Epizootic Across the Landscape in Northwestern Wyoming, Craig A. Ramey, Kenneth W. Mills, Justin W. Fischer, Robert G. McLean, Kathleen A. Fagerstone, and Richard M. Engeman
THE USE OF CONTRACEPTION AS A DISEASE MANAGEMENT TOOL IN WILDLIFE, Jack C. Rhyan, Lowell A. Miller, and Kathleen A. Fagerstone
West Nile virus associations in wild mammals: a synthesis, J. Jeffrey Root