Online Tables

 

Table s4    

Literature review results for the sixty-five wild bird species observed in this study of which free-living individuals have been tested in North America.

 

Table s5 

Literature review results for the four wild bird species observed in this study, in which the literature review found limited (2) or no (2) North American data available, but data was returned from other parts of the world.

 

Table s6

Literature review results for the experimental infection studies in three wild bird species observed in this study with limited data available from free-living birds.

 

Table s7

Fifty-five wild bird species in which no evidence was returned on avian influenza infection using a structured literature review process.

Appendix 1: Literature Review Search Terms

Term Set #1

american goldfinch or carduelis tristis or american wigeon or anas americana or belted kingfisher or ceryle alcyon or black capped chickadee or poecile atricapillus or canada goose or branta canadiensis or cedar waxwing or bombycilla cedrorum or chipping sparrow or spizella passerine or dark eyed junco or junco hyemalis or downy woodpecker or picoides pubescens or eastern kingbird or tyrannus tyrannus or european starling or stumus vulgaris or fox sparrow or passerlla iliaca or glaucous winged gull or larus glaucesens or gray catbird or dumetella carolinensis or greater yellowlegs or totanus or green winged teal or anas carolinesis or hermit thrush or catharus guttatas or herring gull or larus argentatus or house finch or carpodacus mexicanus or house sparrow or passer domesticus or kildeer or charadrius vociferous or lincolns sparrow or melospiza lincolnii or mallard or anas platyrhnchos or merlin or falco columbarius or mew gull or larus canus or nashville warbler or vermivora ruficapilla or northern flicker or colaptes auratus or northern pintail or anas acuta or orange crowned warbler or vermivora celata or purple finch or carpodacus purpureus or red eyed vireo or vireo olivaceus or ring billed gull or larus delavarensis or robin or turdus migratorius or rose breasted grosbeak or pheuticus ludovicianus or ruby throated hummingbird or archilocus colubris or savannah sparrow or passerculus sandwichensis or sharp shinned hawk or accipiter striatus or song sparrow or melospiza melodia or spotted sandpiper or actitis macularius or swainson$ thrush or catharus ustulata or white throated sparrow or zonotrichia albicollis or willow flycatcher or empidonax trailli or wilsons snipe or galinago delicate or winter wren or troglodytes or wood duck or aix sponsa or yellow rumped warbler or dendroica coronata or yellow warbler or dendroica petechia or peregrine falcon or falco peregrinus or pine siskin or carduelis pinus or rock dove or columba livea or american pipit or anthus rubescens or american tree sparrow or spizella arborea or bald eagle or haliaeetus leucocephalus or baltimore oriole or icterus galbula or barn swallow or hirunda rustica or bewicks wren or thyromanes bewickii or black headed grosbeak or pheuctius melanocephalus or black throated green warbler or dendroica virens or blue jay or cyanocitta cristata or brewers blackbird or euphagus cyanocephalus or brown creeper or certhia americana or brown headed cowbird or malanthros ater or brown thrasher or toxostoma rufum or bushtit or psaltriparus minimus or california gull or larus californicus or chestnut backed chickadee or poecile rufenscens or cliff swallow or petrochiledon pyrrhonota or common grackle or quiscalus quiscula or common raven or corvus corax or common yellowthroat or geothylpis trichas or coopers hawk or accipter cooperi or crow or corvus brachyrhynchos or eastern meadowlark or sturnella magna or eastern wood peewee or contopus virens or evening grosbeak or coccothraustes vespertinus or field sparrow or spizella pusilla or golden crowned kinglet or regulus satrapa or golden crowned sparrow or zonotrichia atricapilla or great blue heron or ardea hirodeas or hairy woodpecker or picoides villosus or horned lark or eremophila alpestrus or house wren or troglodytes aedon or indigo bunting or passerins cyanea or kestrel or falco sparverius or marsh wren or cistothorus palustrus or mourning dove or zanaida macroura or northern cardinal or cardinalis cardinalis or northern harrier or circus cyaneus or northern shrike or lanius excubitor or pacific slope flycatcher or empinodax difficilis or pileated woodpecker or purple martin or progne subis or red breasted sapsucker or sphyraoicus ruber or red bellied woodpecker or melanerpes carolinus or red breasted nuthatch or sitta canadensis or red tailed hawk or buteo jamaicensis or red-winged blackbird or agelaius phoeniceus or rough legged hawk or buteo lagopus or ruby crowned kinglet or regulus calendula or rufous hummingbird or selasphorus rufus or sandhill crane or grus canadensis or snow bunting or plectrophenax nivalis or solitary sandpiper or tringa solitaria or spotted towhee or pipilo maculatus or stellars jay or cyanocitta stelleri or townsends solitaire or myadestes townsendi or tree swallow or tachycineta bicolor or trumpeter swan or cygnus buccinator or turkey vulture or cathartes aura or varigated thrush or ixoreus naevius or vauxs swift or chaetui vauxi or vesper sparrow or poecetes gramineus or violet green swallow or tachycineta thalassina or warbling vireo or viro gilvus or western meadowlark or sturnella neglecta or western tanager or pilanga ludoviciana or western wood peewee or contopus sordidulus or white breasted nuthatch or sitta carolinensis or white crowned sparrow or zonotrichia leucophrys or waterfowl or explode ducks or explode geese or explode passeriformes or predatory birds or explode falconiformes or hawks or wild birds or waterbird$ or shorebird$ or wading bird$ or passerine$ or raptor$ or birds prey or falcon$ or hawk$

Term Set #2

surveillance or detect$ or monitor$ or screen$ or test$ or sampl$ or isolat$ or carry or carrier$ or reservoir$ or screening or explode testing or explode sampling or isolation or carriers or explode reservoir hosts or explode surveillance or detection or monitoring

Term Set #3

avian influenza or influenza a or avian influenza viruses or avian influenza a viruses or influenza A virus or influenzavirus A or avian flu or avian influenza

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