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Lead:

Summary Information
Classification Chemicals / Metals, Minerals & Simple Molecules / Type:

(This chemicals section is currently predominantly used in Wildpro to link different data types and demonstrate inter-relationships. It does not contain detailed information on the chemical itself.)
Alternative Names Pb (Chemical symbol)
Notes
  • The main sources of lead for waterfowl are lead shotgun shot and, particularly for swans, lead weights used by anglers (See Fishing tackle). Other potential sources, which may be more important for other species, include soil and water contaminated by mine wastes or industry, paint pigments, bullets, lead batteries and other lead objects, as well as lead in car exhausts (pre-lead-free petrol/gasoline).
  • Lead shot and fishing weights are commonly consumed accidentally while foraging or deliberately as a type of grit.

(B20.10.w7, B35.3.w1, B36.43.w43, B37.x.w1)
Taxa Groups (hyperlinked if included as Wildpro Modules) containing host species which have been recorded as infected by this organism.
Associated Waterfowl Diseases Lead Poisoning (Plumbism, Lead intoxication) Waterfowl Disease Summary Chronic toxic disease with systemic effects, manifest particularly as nervous and gastro-intestinal signs.
Waterfowl in which the associated disease has been recorded.
Foreign Body Ingestion (Traumatic Ventriculitis, Hardware Disease) Waterfowl Disease Summary Ingested items may cause inflammation, penetrate the gastro-intestinal tract and cause peritonitis and/or cause Impaction.
Waterfowl in which the associated disease has been recorded.
Impaction (Oesophageal Impaction) Waterfowl Disease Summary Impaction of food in the gastro-intestinal tract, usually in the oesophagus sometimes in the proventriculus, gizzard or intestines.
Waterfowl in which the associated disease has been recorded.  

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