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Lead Exposure in Bald Eagles from Big Game Hunting, the Continental Implications and Successful Mitigation Efforts

Studies suggest hunter discarded viscera of big game animals (i.e., offal) is a source of lead available to scavengers. We investigated the incidence of lead exposure in bald eagles in Wyoming during the big game hunting season, the influx of eagles into our study area during the hunt, the geographi...

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Autores principales: Bedrosian, Bryan, Craighead, Derek, Crandall, Ross
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23284837
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051978