Polychlorinated Biphenyl Contamination of Tree Swallows in the Upper Hudson River Valley, New York. Effects on Breeding Biology and Implications for Other Bird Species | Health & Environmental Research Online (HERO)

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HERO ID

2200269

Reference Type

Technical Report

Title

Polychlorinated Biphenyl Contamination of Tree Swallows in the Upper Hudson River Valley, New York. Effects on Breeding Biology and Implications for Other Bird Species

Author(s)

Secord, AL; Mccarty, JP

Year

1997

Report Number

NTIS/10990100

Volume

GRA and I

Issue

GRA and I

Abstract

The Hudson River, from Hudson Falls to New York City, is highly contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), largely as a result of PCB releases from two capacitor manufacturing plants in Hudson Falls and Fort Edward, New York. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined to evaluate the effects of the Hudson River PCBs on migratory birds, selecting the tree swallow ('Tachycineta bicolor') as a sentinel species.