At present, domestic and wild fauna are being exposed to aspects and factors which are
foreign to the habitat in which they live. One that stands out is the enormous amount and …

Lead shot ingestion is the primary source of elevated lead exposure and poisoning in
waterfowl and most other bird species. For some species (eg Common Loons, Gavia immer) …

This review article is the third in a series on animal poisoning in Europe and represents a
collation of published and non-published wildlife poisoning data from Belgium, France …

Abstract The Ebro delta (NE Spain) is a 320 km 2 wetland area ofinternational importance
for conservation. The area is devotedto rice farming and receives large amounts of …

The impact of the spill from the mine in Aznalcollar (Seville, Spain) on waterfowl in the
Doñana National Park is assessed. The concentrations of Cu, Pb, Cd, Zn and As in the liver …

Contents of iron, zinc, copper, manganese, nickel, lead and cadmium were determined in
the brain, pectoral muscle, kidney, liver and bones of the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), a …

Some Mediterranean wetlands are found between the areas with the highest prevalence of
lead pellet exposure for waterfowl in the world. To assess the situation in Spain, availability …

The use of lead (Pb) ammunition in the form of shot pellets has been identified as a Pb
exposure risk in wildlife and their human consumers. We explore the hypothesis that Pb shot …

We studied lead (Pb) shot contamination in sediments from the Guadalquivir marshes and
six other closed-basin lagoons in Southern Spain that are of major importance for …

Breeding marsh harriers disappeared from the Ebro delta in the 1980s. Although marsh
harrier breeding populations have recently increased in other wetlands of NE Spain …