E. Jane Parmley*†

, Nathalie Bastien‡, Timothy F. Booth‡, Victoria Bowes§, Peter A. Buck¶, Andre Breault#, Dale Caswell**, Pierre-Yves Daoust††‡‡, J. Chris Davies§§, Seyyed Mehdy Elahi¶¶, Madeleine Fortin##, Fred Kibenge††, Robin King***, Yan Li‡, Norman North†††, Davor Ojkic‡‡‡, John Pasick§§§, Sydney Paul Pryor¶¶¶, John Robinson§, Jean Rodrigue###, Hugh Whitney****, Patrick Zimmer††††, and Frederick A. Leighton††††
Author affiliations: *Centre for Coastal Health, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada; †Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada; ‡Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; §British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada; ¶Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; #Canadian Wildlife Service, Delta, British Columbia, Canada; **Canadian Wildlife Service, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ††University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada; ‡‡Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Center, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada; §§Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada; ¶¶University of Montréal, St.-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada; ##Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec, Québec, Québec, Canada; ***Alberta Agriculture and Food, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; †††Canadian Wildlife Service, London, Ontario, Canada; ‡‡‡University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; §§§Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; ¶¶¶Canadian Wildlife Service, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; ###Canadian Wildlife Service, Ste.-Foy, Québec, Canada; ****Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada; ††††Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;
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Table 1
Duck species sampled in 2005 and RRT-PCR results, Canada*
| Common name | Taxonomic name | No. sampled | No. M1-positive (%) | No. H5-positive (%) |
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| Mallard† | Anas platyrhynchos | 2,600 | 1148 (44) | 187 (7) |
| American black duck† | A. rubripes | 293 | 99 (34) | 2 (1%) |
| American wigeon† | A. americana | 101 | 33 (33) | 0 |
| Blue-winged teal† | A. discors | 431 | 105 (24) | 2 |
| Cinnamon teal† | A. cyanoptera | 4 | 1 (25) | 0 |
| Gadwall† | A. strepera | 36 | 1 (3) | 0 |
| Green-winged teal† | A. crecca | 224 | 52 (23) | 5 (2) |
| Northern pintail† | A. acuta | 131 | 26 (20) | 4 (3) |
| Northern shoveler† | A. clypeata | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Wood duck‡ | Aix sponsa | 104 | 71 (68) | 2 (2) |
| Common goldeneye§ | Bucephala clangula | 18 | 2 (11) | 0 |
| Canvasback§ | Aythya valisineria | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Hooded merganser§ | Lophodytes cucullatus | 26 | 8 (31) | 0 |
| Lesser scaup§ | Aythya affinis | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Redhead§ | Aythya americana | 223 | 18 (8) | 6 (3) |
| Ring-necked duck§ | Aythya collaris | 51 | 8 (16) | 0 |
| Ruddy duck¶ | Oxyura jamaicensis | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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