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A review of the problem of lead poisoning in waterfowl

Sanderson, Glen C.; Bellrose, Frank C.

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Title
A review of the problem of lead poisoning in waterfowl
Author(s)
  • Sanderson, Glen C.
  • Bellrose, Frank C.
Issue Date
1986-08
Keyword(s)
  • Blei
  • Conservation
  • Entenvögel
  • Illinois
  • Lead
  • Toxicology
  • Vergiftung
  • Waterfowl
Abstract
Waterfowl die from ingesting lead shotgun pellets deposited on the bottoms of lakes and marshes and in fields. In most instances, they die after ingesting 1 or 2 pellets, their bodies wasting away over a period of several weeks, losing from 30 to 50 percent of normal weight. No other disease produces such a consistent chronic weight loss. Less frequently, a large number of shot are ingested, an acute form of lead poisoning results, and the bird dies in good weight. More definitive diagnoses of lead toxicosis have been made from levels of lead in wing bones, in blood, and in the liver and other organs.
Publisher
[Champaign, Ill.] :Illinois Natural History Survey,[1986]
Series/Report Name or Number
Illinois Natural History Survey Special Publication no. 04
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/111642
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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/181785
Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Copyright and License Information
Copyright, 1986, University of Illinois Board of Trustees. Made available here under a CC-By-NC license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

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Special Publications - Illinois Natural History Survey PRIMARY
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