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Toxicity of Ingested Bismuth Alloy Shot in Game-farm Mallards: Acute Toxicity of Ingested Bismuth Alloy Shot in Game-farm Mallards

Sanderson, Glen C.; Anderson, William L.; Foley, George L.; Skowron, Loretta M.; Brawn, Jeffrey D.; Seets, James W.

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Title
Toxicity of Ingested Bismuth Alloy Shot in Game-farm Mallards: Acute Toxicity of Ingested Bismuth Alloy Shot in Game-farm Mallards
Author(s)
  • Sanderson, Glen C.
  • Anderson, William L.
  • Foley, George L.
  • Skowron, Loretta M.
  • Brawn, Jeffrey D.
  • Seets, James W.
Contributor(s)
  • Rice, Thomas E.
  • Warwick, Charles
Issue Date
1997-04
Keyword(s)
  • mallards
  • study
  • poisoning
  • hunting
  • shot
  • metals
  • bird hunting
  • waterfowl
  • Anas platyrhynchos
Abstract
In a 30-day study involving penned game-farm mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), no harmful health effects were detected from dosing with either six, No. 4, bismuth/tin (Bi/Sn) alloy shot or six, No. 4, steel (Fe) shot, as compared with sham (0 shot) dosing. Survival, hematocrit (Hct) values, body weight, and mean weights of kidneys, livers, gonads, and gizzards were not affected. Mean concentrations of nutritionally essential elements (calcium [Ca], phosphorous [P], magnesium [Mg], zinc [Zn], copper [Cu], Fe, and Sn) were different among doses and between sexes in kidneys, livers, and gonads. However, concentrations of these elements in these organs and tissues in Bi-dosed ducks were not different from both 0- and Fe-dosed ducks. Bi/Sn alloy shot, as tested in this study, elicited no indications of toxicity in game-farm mallard ducks.
Publisher
Champaign, Ill. : Illinois Natural History Survey
Series/Report Name or Number
Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin; v. 035, no. 03
ISSN
0073-4918
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/26522
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