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title: "Endoparasites in the Waved Albatross"
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# Endoparasites in the Waved Albatross

Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui ([Charles Darwin Foundation](http://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/), Puerto Ayora, Galápagos, Ecuador) and colleagues have published in the [*Journal of Wildlife Diseases*](http://www.jwildlifedis.org/) on the presence of endoparasites in the [Critically Endangered](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3955) Waved Albatross *Phoebastria irrorata*.

 The paper's abstract follows:

 “Using a fecal flotation technique, we detected three genera of endoparasites in the critically endangered Waved Albatross (*Phoebastria irrorata*) of Galápagos.  These genera were *Contracaecum*,*Tetrabothrius*, and *Cardiocephaloides*.  Juvenile albatrosses were more likely to be infected than adults, but we found no effect of sex or mass on infection probability.”

 *![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/W/Waved/Waved_Albatross_Isla_Espanola_by_Ron_LeValley.jpg)*

 Waved Albatross, photograph by Ron LeValley

 **Reference:**

 Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Soledad Sarzosa, M., Encalada, E., Sevilla, C. & Huyvaert, K.P. 2015.  Gastrointestinal Parasites in the Waved Albatross (*Phoebastria irrorata*) of Galápagos.  *Journal of Wildlife Diseases* [doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.7589/2014-06-165http://dx.doi.org/10.7589/2014-06-165](http://www.jwildlifedis.org/doi/abs/10.7589/2014-06-165).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 17 June 2015*