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. 2020 Jun 18;82(8):1118–1123. doi: 10.1292/jvms.20-0104

Table 1. Hepatic Pb levels (mg/kg, wet weight, range) and the assesments of Pb exposure in birds from Hokkaido.

Species Sample size Pb concentration in liver Assessments


mg/kg, wet wt, median,
(range)
Pb poisoning
(>2.0 mg.kg)
High Pb exposure
(0.2–2.0 mg/kg)
Non toxic
(<0.2 mg/kg)
White-tailed sea eagle 51 0.068 (0.003–50.79) 3 2 46
Steller’s sea eagle 34 0.082 (0.003–72.01) 9 3 22
Blakiston’s fish-owl 7 0.036 (0.001–0.070) 0 0 7
Mountain hawk-eagle 3 0.095 (0.023–0.120) 0 0 3
Northern goshawk 3 0.025 (0.007–0.136) 0 0 3
Eurasian Hobby 2 (0.092, 0.278) 0 1 1
Jungle crow 2 (0.063, 0.107) 0 0 2
Peregrine falcon 1 0.093 0 0 1
Sparrow hawk 1 0.065 0 0 1
Ural owl 1 0.137 0 0 1
Whooper swan 1 19.56 1 0 0