Our data show that the prevalence of lead poisoning in California condors is of epidemic proportion, concludes a sweeping study published this week by UC-Santa Cruz researcher Myra Finkelstein, and that the principle source of lead poisoning is lead-basedammunition.To learn a little bit more about what the study found, lead author Myra Finkelstein, who first studied toxicity in albatross but began working with condors in 2008, answered a few of my questions thisweek.
Date: Jun 27, 2012
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Condors Are Being Driven To Extinction By Lead Poisoning
ational Academy of Sciences. Study author Myra Finkelstein, a research toxicologist at UC Santa Cruz, said that the research makes it clear that without a permanent solution to the problem of lead poisoning, the condor population can only be sustained through intensive and costly management efforts.
Date: Jun 26, 2012
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Lead acutely threatens California condor population, study says
Myra Finkelstein, a toxicologist at UC Santa Cruz and the lead author on the study, said that without a broader ban the odds remain too high that condors will encounter lead-tainted food. If only one out of 100 carcasses has lead in it, each condor has a nearly one-in-two chance of being poisoned ev
Date: Jun 26, 2012
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Study: Lead Poisoning Blocks Recovery of California Condor Population
We will never have a self-sustaining wild condor population if we dont solve this problem, said lead author Myra Finkelstein, a research toxicologist at UC Santa Cruz. Currently, California condors are tagged and monitored, trapped twice a year for blood tests and when necessary treated for lead
Date: Jun 26, 2012
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Lead poisoning is ravaging bird population in California: Study
affected by lead in ammunition. Study author Myra Finkelstein notes that, Currently, California condors are tagged and monitored, trapped twice a year for blood tests, and when necessary treated for lead poisoning in veterinary hospitals, and they still die from lead poisoning on a regular basis.
The three main things we found were that condors are continually exposed to harmful levels of lead, the principle source of that lead is ammunition, and that lead poisoning from ammunition is preventing the recovery of the condor population, said study researcher Myra Finkelstein, a research fello
Date: Jun 26, 2012
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California Condors Face Menace of Carcasses Laden with Bullet Lead
By any measure, the lead poisoning rates in condors are of epidemic proportions, says Myra Finkelstein, a toxicologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz, who led the research.
Date: Jun 26, 2012
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New study: lead poisoning of condors at 'epidemic proportions'
"Lead poisoning is preventing the recovery of California condors," said Myra Finkelstein, a research toxicologist at the University of California-Santa Cruz who was a lead author of the study. "The population is not self-sustaining."