Mercury Concentrations in Songbird Feathers and Tissues

This dataset includes the bird species, sex, age, and total mercury concentrations in feathers, muscle, liver, and nail tissues.

Data and Resources

Field Value
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identifier USGS:5bdb5190e4b0b3fc5cee12fd
metadata_type geospatial
modified 20200819
publisher U.S. Geological Survey
publisher_hierarchy Department of the Interior > U.S. Geological Survey
resource-type Dataset
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theme {geospatial}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • biota
  • chemical-analysis
  • ckan
  • contamination-and-pollution
  • environment
  • feathers
  • geo
  • geoss
  • liver
  • mercury-compounds
  • muscles
  • national
  • north-america
  • songbirds
  • specimen-collecting
  • united-states
  • usgs-5bdb5190e4b0b3fc5cee12fd
isopen False
license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer Collin A Eagles-Smith
maintainer_email ceagles-smith@usgs.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T16:12:40.461459
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T16:12:40.461463
notes This dataset includes the bird species, sex, age, and total mercury concentrations in feathers, muscle, liver, and nail tissues.
num_resources 2
num_tags 19
title Mercury Concentrations in Songbird Feathers and Tissues