USDA personnel collect fecal samples from wild birds.

USDA personnel record samples taken from wild birds.

A net gun is used to capture wild birds.

USDA personnel record samples taken from wild birds.

A net gun is used to capture wild birds.

USDA Wildlife Services Assistant State Director for Alaska, Corey Rossi, holds a king eider. The bird was sampled for avian influenza.

USDA Wildlfe Services disease biologist Todd Felix collected fecal samples for avian influenza surveillance.

Fecal samples are collected from waterfowl habitats throughout the United States.

USDA Wildlife Services employee checks data sheet during avian influenza surveillance efforts in Alaska.

USDA Wildlife Services employee holds a red phalarope - one of the many wild bird species sampled for avian influenza.