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Translocation and disease monitoring of wild laysan ducks

Michelle H. Reynolds·Thierry M. Work
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The Laysan duck (Anas laysanensis), also known as the Laysan teal because of its small size, is a critically endangered waterfowl species that once occurred widely across the Hawaiian Archipelago. For the past 150 years, however, it was restricted to a single population on Laysan, a 4-square-kilometer (1.5-square-mile) island with a hypersaline shallow lake. Laysan is part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.

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Michelle H. Reynolds, Thierry M. Work. 2007. Translocation and disease monitoring of wild laysan ducks. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70159652

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