Florida bald eagles

Wood PB. 1993. Mercury concentrations in blood and feathers of nestling Florida bald eagles. Annual Meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation, Inc, Charlotte, NC, November 28 68. 

Wood PB, White JH, Steffer A, Wood JM, Facemire CF, Percival HF. 1996. Mercury concentrations in tissues of Florida bald eagles. J Wildl Manage 60 178-185. 

Florida bald eagles, showed the same trend. Subsequent mechanistic smdies suggested that, in raptors, it is the DDT metabolite DDE, not the parent compound itself, that is responsible for the eggshell thinning, through disruption of calcium transport within the eggshell gland. 

Tissue extracts from 19 bald eagle Haliaectas leucocephalus) carcasses were examined to determine if biomagnification of TCDD had occurred in a manner similar to DDT. These carcasses came from the states of Alaska, Maine, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Maryland, Virginia, Iowa, New York, New Jersey, and Florida between 1966 and 1971 and were collected and furnished by scientists at the Patuxent Wildlife Center, U.S. Department of the Interior, Laurel, Md. The samples were selected from these states to provide a widely dispersed sampling population. 

Bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus eggs Florida Maine Wisconsin... 

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