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KCnative, Lead poisoning in condors has been pretty well documented. See this USA Today, which says:  "... a July study that analyzed blood of condors in the wild and compared it with blood of captive birds proves that lead from bullets is poisoning and killing condors. The study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology was the first to identify a lead isotope in bullets bought at retail outlets in condor country and then match it to lead found in condor blood. Twenty of 26 condors sampled had high lead levels, and many exceeded levels toxic to humans." Here's more from UC Santa Cruz, the university where the research was done. And here's a 2007 story from the LA Daily News that talks about how 9 of 17 condors brought to the LA Zoo that year for treatment were suffering from high levels of lead.
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