Lead pellet retention time and associate
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Richard Kerr; Steven Holladay; Timothy Jarrett; Barbara Selcer; Blair Meldrum; S
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Birds are exposed to Pb by oral ingestion of spent Pb shot as grit. A paucity of data exists for retention and clearance of these particles in the bird gastrointestinal tract. In the current study, northern bobwhite quail (__Colinus virginianus__) were orally gavaged with 1, 5, or 10 Pb