The Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme: Identifying chemical risks to top predators in Britain

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 466-471

  Walker, Lee A ^a   Shore, Richard F ^a   Turk, Anthony ^a   Pereira, M Glória ^a   Best, Jennifer ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PESTICIDE; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; RAPTOR; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; GREAT BRITAIN; RAPTORS; RISK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES;

EID: 53549093295     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[469:TPBMSI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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50. The predatory bird monitoring scheme (PBMS) is supported by funding from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Natural England, Environment Agency and the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use. We thank members of the public who have submitted carcasses to the PBMS.