Chlorinated pesticides and PCBs in colonial nesting water birds of Galveston Bay, Texas

• Main Author: Frank, Donell S., Miguel A. Mora, and Jose L. Sericano
• Other Authors: Proceedings: The State of the Bay Symposium IV. January 28-29, 1999
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission 1999
• Subjects: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); Alexander Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/25846

pgs. 209-213 Eggs from neotropic cormorants (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), black-crowned night herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) and great egrets (Ardea alba) were collected from a heronry located in Alexander Island near the Houston Ship Channel in Galveston Bay. Eggs from neotropic cormorants were also...