Name: Resident reports a loon with suspected lead poisoning at Little Sand Bay, 2017
Start: 2017-09-16
End: 2017-09-16
Location: Little Sand Bay

Resident reports a loon with suspected lead poisoning at Little Sand Bay, 2017

Also Little Sand Bay loon report 2017

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Locator map: Little Sand Bay highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago

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TypeEvent

Date2017-09-16

WithinLittle Sand Bay

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2017-09-16
Kind: Wildlife incident report
Where: Little Sand Bay
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: wildlifeconservationenvironmental-healthfishing
Within: Little Sand Bay

Summary

On September 16, 2017, a resident reported a loon at Little Sand Bay that repeatedly beached itself and was believed by the observer to have lead poisoning. The same notice recruited beach rangers to watch for dead birds and fish during the fall avian-botulism season.

Evidence limits

This is a single resident wildlife observation and outreach notice. It is not a confirmed diagnosis, mortality event, or agency survey result.

Sources

Jacquel, “Beach Rangers needed and Loon found poisoned,” Beaver Island Forum, September 16, 2017.
The post recruited beach rangers to monitor dead birds and fish for possible avian botulism and described a loon at Little Sand Bay that the author believed had lead poisoning after it repeatedly beached itself. No laboratory test, wildlife-agency report, carcass recovery, or independent diagnosis is held; the biological diagnosis remains explicitly unverified.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Resident reports a loon with suspected lead poisoning at Little Sand Bay, 2017”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-loon-lead-poisoning-report-2017/, accessed [date], citing Jacquel, “Beach Rangers needed and Loon found poisoned,” Beaver Island Forum, September 16, 2017..

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