Lead Shot Ingestion by Mourning Doves and Incidence in Soil
- 1 July 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 32 (3) , 476-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3798925
Abstract
Biologists in Tennessee collected 1949 gizzards from doves harvested on fields managed for public hunting. One [degree]/o of the doves had ingested bet ween 1 and 24 lead shot. Pre- and post-hunt soil samples were collected from a field with a history of 8 years of managed public dove shooting. In the top 3/8 inch of soil there were 10, 890 shot per acre before the Sept. 1 and 2 hunt. The post-hunt sample indicated 43, 560 shot per acre in the top 3/8 inch.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: