Albatross

Burger J, Gochfeld M. 2000b. Metals in albatross feathers from Midway Atoll influence of species, age, and nest location. Environ Res 82 207-21. 

Hindell MA, Brothers N, Gales R. 1999. Mercury and cadmium concentrations in the tissues of three species of southern albatrosses. Polar Biol 22 102-108. 

Muscle Marine birds, New Zealand 1975-83 Albatrosses, eight species adults vs. juveniles 14.0 DW 1... 

Laysan albatross, Diomedea immutabilis chicks Hawaii 1994 ... 

Sileo, L. and S.I. Fefer. 1987. Paint chip poisoning of Laysan albatross at Midway Atoll. Jour Wildl. Dis. 23 432-437. 

Work, T.M. and M.R. Smith. 1996. Lead exposure in Laysan albatross adults and chicks in Hawaii prevalence, risk factors, and biochemical effects. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 31 115-119. 

Klasson-Wehler, E., A. Bergman, M. Athanasiodou, J.P. Ludwig, H.J. Auman, K. Kannan, M. Van Den Berg, A.J. Murk, L.A. Feyk, and J.P. Giesy. 1998. Hydroxylated and methylsulfonyl polychlorinated biphenyl metabolites in albatrosses from Midway Atoll, north Pacific Ocean. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 17 1620-1625. 

Electrophysiologically measured thresholds for butanoic acid and ethanethiol in Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus) and black-footed albatross Diomedea nigripes) are as low as 0.01 ppm (Wenzel and Sieck, 1966). More electrophysiologi-cal thresholds for some compounds in tree swallows and cedar waxwings (Clark, 1991), starlings (Clark and Smeraski, 1990), and brown-headed cowbirds (Clark and Mason, 1989) are listed in Table 5.4. 

Black-footed albatross Amyl acetate. 0.01 Wenzel and Sieck, 1966... 

Another experiment used cod liver oil, crude krill extract, and the krill odor components trimethylamine and pyrazine, with phenylethanol (rose odor) as control. Several procellariiform species were attracted to krill extract. The krill odor components attracted giant petrels, cape petrels, blue petrels, Antarctic petrels, Kerguelen petrels, and black-browed albatrosses. Cape petrels were more attracted to trimethylamine than to pyrazine and cod liver oil hut blue petrels responded most to cod liver oil (Nevitt, 1999). 

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