LEAD POISONING
HOW WATER-FOWL ARE AFFECTED. A Government report received by the Forest and Bird Protection Society from Canada states that many wild fowl in that Dominion die cf blood poisoning from gobbling up spent buck-shot lying in the bottom of marsh land. Once the lead pellets are swallowed they remain in the bird's u until fhev are greatly reduced by the acid in the digestive Tn the meantime, the lead derived from the shot affects the bird’s blood, muscles, nerves and internal organs, producing characteristic leaf 1 poisoning and often resulting in death In an effort to help in wild life conservation, scientists have developed r shot made of an alloy cf lead and magnesium which, while as effective for hunting purposes, will dissolve rapidly enough, if swallowed, to prevent blood poisoning. Il is believed that many water-fowl in New Zealand have found death in the same way because similar poisonous shot is used here. For one pellet that lodges in a bird, thousands fall on the haunts of ducks. Reliable investigation is needed to give an accurate estimate of mortality due to leadpoisoning in this country.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1941, Page 7
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