Birdhealth
A research project initiated by the Arctic Centre for the International Polar Year (IPY) on health of polar bird populations.
The plan
Studying the occurence of pathogens and parasites in arctic breeding migratory birds,
testing the immune system and mark these birds with visual individually coded tags
to relate the health status of the bird to individual fitness (breeding success and survival).
An experimental treatment of indivdiual birds with medicine could show the causal link between
health and fitness.
More details can be found on the project website:.