From Montreal, at a meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Since 1999, more than 2,100 trumpeter swans in northwest Washington and southwest British Columbia have died—about 15 percent of the birds that winter in this region. Nearly 80 percent of the deaths occurred because the birds ate lead shotgun pellets, reports a U.S.–Canadian
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