Great egret

Accounting for food availability reveals contaminant-induced breeding impairment, food-modulated contaminant effects, and endpoint-specificity of exposure indicators in free ranging avian populations
It remains unclear how sub-lethal effects of contaminants play out in relation to other stressors encountered by free-ranging …
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Variation in nestling feather mercury concentrations at individual, brood, and breeding colony levels: Implications for sampling mercury in birds
Nestling feathers are often used to monitor and estimate Hg exposure in birds. Decision-making and results of studies on effects of …
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Wading birds as bioindicators of mercury contamination in Florida, USA: Annual and geographic variation
Mercury contamination in wetland biota is often dynamic, difficult to predict, and costly to track. In this paper, we present results …
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Mercury contamination in free-ranging great egret nestlings (Ardea albus) from Southern Florida, USA
Between March and June of 1994 and 1995, mercury (Hg) concentrations were determined from 393 blood and 164 growing scapular feathers …
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