Photo 1643589, (c) Cailin O'Connor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Cailin O'Connor

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What

Gapeworm (Syngamus trachea)

Observer

celticcail

Date

March 21, 2015

Description

Again, this is Syngamus trachea/gapeworm. I don't know why the site doesn't have it. The adult form is easily visible in the trachea of nestling birds who are infected. This is an egg about to hatch; he was squirming about.

This was from wild Canada Goose poop so it should count; I ran the fecal, sorry for the terrible quality pic... I had to take a picture of the computer screen hooked up to the scope. This is 100x magnification.

I'll try to convert the good .bmp picture to .jpg so I can use it.

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