This was not a scene from a new horror movie about a mysterious plague. The birds died from lead poisoning. This wasn’t decades ago or in a third world country with no environmental regulation. It was ...

Several of the birds with lead poisoning had banding indicating they were from Lombard, which suggests they were in a nonmigratory group. Lead shot and sinkers can mostly pass through predatory ...

Two lead-poisoned bald eagles were recently euthanized at the World Bird Sanctuary in Missouri after efforts to save them ...

In today’s health headlines, what we learn about lead poisoning from ancient Rome. Also, putting the first bird flu death ...

A wildlife rehabilitation center in Utah is again calling on hunters to switch to lead-free ammunition after a bald eagle ...

Resident Michael Loveridge reported he had been seeing dead birds in Port Pirie ... further tests revealed the wildlife were killed by lead poisoning. "Subsequent testing determined acute lead ...

Yet toxic lead is still entering the food chain through widespread use of lead hunting ammunition and fishing tackle, poisoning wildlife and even threatening human health. At least 75 wild bird ...

Dr Jenny Jaffe of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), who worked on the study, said birds of prey, and especially scavengers, eat animals that contain lead shot, leading to lead poisoning.

To see the toxic legacy of lead mining in the US and understand the complicated task of cleaning it up, all one has to do is ...