Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Scotland;Department of Veterinary Pharmacology, University of Glasgow, Scotland;The Seabird Group, Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Abstract:
Concentrations of mercury in the liver of birds around the British coast vary from very low levels of 0.7 ppm in a young guillemot to 122 ppm in a redbreasted merganser. Eiders which feed on mussels known to accumulate mercury also have high concentrations of this pollutant.