PMID- 15093063
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20040510
LR  - 20190901
IS  - 0269-7491 (Print)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 106
IP  - 1
DP  - 1999 Jul
TI  - Arsenic residues in predatory birds from an area of Britain with naturally and 
      anthropogenically elevated arsenic levels.
PG  - 91-5
AB  - Birds of prey forage over large areas and so might be expected to accumulate 
      contaminants which are elevated but heterogeneously distributed in the general 
      environment. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that arsenic levels 
      in raptors from a region with elevated environmental arsenic concentrations were 
      higher than those in birds from an uncontaminated part of Britain. Arsenic 
      concentrations in the liver, kidney and muscle of kestrels, Falco tinnunculus, 
      sparrowhawks, Accipiter nisus, and barn owls, Tyto alba, from south-west (SW) 
      England, an area with naturally and anthropogenically (through mining) elevated 
      environmental arsenic concentrations, were compared with those in birds from SW 
      Scotland, where no such geochemical anomaly exists. Arsenic residues in kestrels 
      from SW England were approximately three times greater than those in birds from 
      SW Scotland for the three tissue types analysed. This was not the case for the 
      other species in which arsenic residues were similar in birds from both regions. 
      It is suggested that differences between species in both diet and arsenic 
      metabolism could explain why kestrels have elevated arsenic tissue burdens in 
      response to general environmental contamination but sparrowhawks and barn owls do 
      not.
FAU - Erry, B V
AU  - Erry BV
AD  - Department of Biological Sciences, Hatherly Laboratories, University of Exeter, 
      Prince of Wales Road, Exeter EX4 2PS, UK.
FAU - Macnair, M R
AU  - Macnair MR
FAU - Meharg, A A
AU  - Meharg AA
FAU - Shore, R F
AU  - Shore RF
FAU - Newton, I
AU  - Newton I
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
EDAT- 2004/04/20 05:00
MHDA- 2004/04/20 05:01
CRDT- 2004/04/20 05:00
PHST- 1998/08/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 1999/02/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2004/04/20 05:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2004/04/20 05:01 [medline]
PHST- 2004/04/20 05:00 [entrez]
AID - S0269-7491(99)00055-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0269-7491(99)00055-x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 1999 Jul;106(1):91-5. doi: 10.1016/s0269-7491(99)00055-x.