Atlas of contaminants in the eggs of fish-eating colonial birds of the Great Lakes, 1993--1997: Volume 2 -- Accounts by chemical. Technical report series number 322

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:6333869

Pekarik, C

During 1993--97, the Canadian Wildlife Service collected 1,252 eggs from 32 fish-eating colonial water bird sites throughout the Great Lakes. The work was part of a monitoring program to understand the temporal and spatial trends of environmental contaminant levels in Great Lakes biota. Eggs of four species (double-crested cormorant, great black-backed gull, herring gull, and ring-billed gull) were sampled and analyzed for organochlorine pesticides, chlorinated benzenes, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), dioxins and furans, and lipid and moisture. This volume contains contaminant data for all four species summarized by compound.

• Research Organization: Canadian Wildlife Service, Environmental Conservation Branch -- Ontario Region, Downsview, Ontario (Canada)
• OSTI ID: 6333869
• Report Number(s): MIC-99-03284/XAB; ISBN: 0-662-27013-4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMALS
AROMATICS
BIOLOGICAL INDICATORS
BIRDS
CANADA
CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
DIOXIN
EGGS
FOOD CHAINS
FURANS
GREAT LAKES
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
LAKES
NORTH AMERICA
ONTARIO
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS
SURFACE WATERS
VERTEBRATES
WATER POLLUTION