 Is lead from shotgun pellets poisoning B.C.'s swans?Environmental | 207818 hits | Jan 26 12:32 am | Posted by: Hyack  More than 2,000 trumpeter swans have died around Judson Lake over the past nine years and the cause of death is no mystery: lead poisoningCommentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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That couldnt have been good for the environment.
In all fairness I used to take my stevens semi auto gas eject 22 calibre out and shoot a carton of shells at a time at gophers out on the prarie along with my friends.Thats ten boxes of shells and a lot of lead put into the ground when there was ten of us wiping out gopher villages.
That couldnt have been good for the environment.
no, but think about all the sinkers that are at the bottom of the lakes and rivers from fishing.
Or are the swans collecting the poisonous pellets as they forage in the fields where lead shot is still legal to use?
I watched W5's documentary about it this week, and video reports on the current news. There have been over 150 dead swans found there just this winter. I watched the autopsies being performed on them and their gizzards were full of lead pellets that had been ground down to soft sludge preventing any other food to go through their systems. Basically they're starving to death. The documentary showed the swans dredging up lead pellets from the lake as well as eating them in the fields.
If you get a chance to watch the W5 documentary it's a real eye-opener. A very sad situation.