Avian Exposure to Agricultural Chemicals in Minnesota: Final Pilot Study ReportMinn. Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Minn., 1993 - Agricultural chemicals - 52 pages |
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5-day-old nestlings collected 5-day-old red-winged blackbirds 9 June ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AChE activity AChE reactivation addition of 2-PAM Application of Lorsban approximately Baker Creek brain tissue brown-headed cowbird BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE C.J. Driver carbamate carbamate insecticides ChE-inhibiting insecticides chlorpyrifos Cholinesterase activity levels collected in Norman Days post-insecticide application DNR Wetland European starlings exhibited significant reactivation exposure to ChE-inhibiting Fish and Wildlife Grue Homestead Wetland house sparrow insecticide application June 20 June levels and diagnostic Lorsban methyl parathion Minnesota in June nestling red-winged blackbirds nests Norman County Northern bobwhite northern harriers northwestern Minnesota Number OCCURRED WITH 2-PAM OP's organophosphate pesticide plasma of nestling plasma samples post-insecticide application vary prairie habitats REACTIVATED WITH 2-PAM red-tailed hawks red-winged blackbird nestlings red-winged blackbirds collected reference samples reference sites Ruebke Creek samples collected samples from 5-day-old samples that reactivated sparrow Ammodramus Spring Creek study sites sugar beet fields TChE and AChE thresholds were calculated thresholds with solid Toxicol wing chord