Rookhawk, the analysis on the California Condor that reports that the lead found in it was "munitions grade" lead is pure bullshit. There is no such thing as munitions grade lead. There are different isotopes of lead as all elemental lead on this planet comes from the natural decay of uranium. So lead mined in two different places can be of differing isotopes, but lead from both of those sources can be used to make bullets. Depleted uranium can be used to make bullets. Uranium 235 or 238 could be used to make bullets, and eventually over millions of years they would decay into some isotope of lead. And birds do pass foreign matter like a mammal and any other vertebrate, and many invertebrates. Everyone here knows that and they have cleaned it off of their windshields... usually right after washing the car. And raptors certainly can pass lead through their digestive systems, or they may retain it in their gizzard along with other grit and gravel. But being such a stable substance, only a miniscule part of the small total available would ever end up in the bloodstream. Do birds die of lead poisoning? I'm sure they do, but it is not the environmental disaster that these bird lover organizations and anti hunting organizations make it out to be. You lose credibility when you repeat misinformation that is intended to be used to ban lead ammunition. I read the peregrine fund studies a while back when goofy Ben Deeble posted those same links here. They were full of junk science and agenda driven bullshit then, and they still are. Maybe you mean well, or maybe you really are working with Ben Deeble (GrouseGuy). Or maybe you really ARE Ben Deeble using another screen name here.
P.S. My profound apologies if you really are not Ben Deeble. Accusing you of that if it were not true would be a ghastly insult.
