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Photos and videos of lead poisoning

 
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Bald eagle
Bald eagle photo by Ken Lockwood, Eagle Valley Raptor Center.
 
Bald eagle
Lead-poisoned bald eagle photo courtesy The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota.
 
Bald eagle
Bald eagle with sternal recumbancy from lead poisoning, photo courtesy The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota.
 
Bald eagle
Buckshot in bald eagle stomach, photo courtesy Wildlife Center of Virginia.
 
Bald eagle
Lateral view of buckshot in bald eagle stomach, photo courtesy Wildlife Center of Virginia.
 
Bald eagle
Lead pellets in rabbit injested by bald eagle, photo courtesy Wildlife Center of Virginia.
 
Bald eagle
Lateral view of lead pellets in rabbit injested by bald eagle, photo courtesy Wildlife Center of Virginia.
 
Vulture
Lead shot in vulture, photo courtesy Wildlife Center of Virginia.
 
Judson Lake
Lead-poisoned Judson Lake trumpeter swan photo courtesy SaveTheSwans.ca.
 
Judson Lake
Lead-poisoned Judson Lake trumpeter swan photo courtesy SaveTheSwans.ca.
 
Immature bald eagle
Immature bald eagle photo courtesy College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
 
Hunt
One of the radiographs from Hunt et al. (2005) of 38 deer shot with lead bullets, showing extensive fragmentation.
 
Hunt
Radiograph from Hunt et al. (2006) shows lead fragmentation in thorax of white-tailed deer killed by a standard copper-jacketed, lead-core, soft-point hunting bullet.
 
Hunt
X-ray from Hunt et al. (2009) shows wide dispersal of lead fragments in the body cavity of a deer killed using standard lead-core, copper-jacketed bullet.
 
Knopper
Radiograph from Knopper et al. (2006) of a ground squirrel shot with a 0.22 rimfire hollow-point bullets, showing lead fragmentation
 
Stroud
Radiograph shows “lead snowstorm” in rifle-killed coyote from Stroud and Hunt (2009).
 
Cornatzer
High-definition computed tomography image of lead fragments embedded in donated ground venison packages from Cornatzer et al. (2009).
 
Immature bald eagle
Immature bald eagle photo courtesy College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.
Toxic Harvest video courtesy of the Peregrine Fund.
 
Helping America's Bird video courtesy The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota.
 
Legacy of Lead Shot video courtesy SaveTheSwans.ca.
 
Lead-poisoned bald eagle video courtesy The Raptor Center, University of Minnesota.

 

California condor photo by Scott Frier, USFWS