Mercury and Other Metals in Feathers of Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) and Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata) from the Aleutian Chain of Alaska

• Published in: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
• Main Authors: Burger, Joanna, Gochfeld, Michael
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Article; Amchitka; Kiska; Common Eider; fratercula; Somateria mollissima; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4300126; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18712499; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-008-9207-5

We analyzed arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, manganese, mercury, and selenium in the feathers of common eiders (Somateria mollissima) and tufted puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) from Amchitka and Kiska islands (Aleutians). Between species, puffins had 10 times higher chromium (arithmetic mean = 1820 p...