Larry and SKB:
Shouting to the mountaintops about a one-liner in a perfunctory briefing note written by a harried staffer at Montana FWP, an agency that has done virtually no study of the lead issue or literature in part because of energetic deniers like those I've cited, is hardly worth taking the time to type about.
Also Larry's hypothesis that live chukar being found with lead shot in their gizzards is "good news" meaning lead must be harmless is a novel hypothesis. Obviously he hasn't read any of the literature proving such in almost all instances causes mobidity and mortality. I'll post some of that later.
Also, this isn't a conversation about me. Note my earlier points on the topic.
Here is some more science....
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23–30.
Clausen, B., Wolstrup, C., 1979. Lead poisoning in game from
Denmark. Dan. Rev. Game Biol. 11, 1–22.
Craig, T.H., Connelly, J.W., Craig, E.H., Parker, T.L., 1990. Lead
concentrations in golden and bald eagles. Wilson Bull. 102,
130–133.
CSTEE, Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the
Environment, 2003. Opinion on the report on Risks to Health
and the Environment Related to the Use of Lead in Products.
Health and Consumer Protection Directorate of the European
Commission, Brussels.
Custer, T.W., Franson, J.C., Pattee, O.H., 1984. Tissue lead
distribution and hematologic effects in American kestrels
(Falco sparverius) fed biologically incorporated lead. J. Wildlife
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Custer, T.W., Mulhern, B.L., 1983. Heavy metal residues in
pre-fledging black-crowned night-herons from three
Atlantic Coast colonies. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 30,
178–185.
