| | Accession Number | 5001875 |
| | Title | Mercury in tree swallows and feathers of other species that line tree swallow nests at |
| | Acadia National Park, Maine |
| | Project Description | Objectives: Objectives of the project were (1) to expand the breadth of an ongoing study by Dr. |
| | Haines (Sources, Fate, and Effects of Mercury in Aquatic Systems at Acadia National Park, |
| | Maine, and Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts) to include an insectivorous bird |
| | species, (b) to characterize the extent of mercury contamination and transfer from lower trophic |
| | levels (i.e., aquatic insects) to the insectivorous tree swallow, and (c) to evaluate the potential of |
| | using feathers of other species that are collected by tree swallows to insulate their nests to |
| | characterize mercury contamination in the surrounding avian community. After the second year of |
| | study it was possible to add an additional year (1999) of data collection by keeping the Acadia NP |
| | study site as a control site for comparison to a Superfund site in MA being evaluated in a |
| | companion study. By doing this, we were able to collect an adequate sample from an additional |
| | pond (Aunt Betty Pond)on Acadia NP. |
| | Keywords | acadia national park, mercury, productivity, tree swallows, trophic relationships, |
| | Principal | Jerry R Longcore, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: Jerry_Longcore@usgs.gov; Daniel G |
| | Investigators | McAuley, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: Dan_McAuley@usgs.gov; |
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