Olympic Alliance oil spillage

Dixon, Tim; Dixon, Trevor R.

doi:10.1016/0025-326x(76)90147-8

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“…For Great Black-backed Gulls, the indirect effects of oil contamination are potentially a more serious threat to population stability than direct effects which lead to adult mortality. Although gulls are rarely killed by direct exposure to oil they frequently do become lightly oiled (Bourne, 1968), taking up to four weeks to rid themselves of oil (Dixon and Dixon, 1976). Thus, if oil contamination occurs early in the breeding season, the possibility of transferring oil to the eggs is high.…”

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Hatching Success of Great Black-Backed Gull Eggs Treated with Oil

McGill¹,

Richmond²

1979

Bird-Banding

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Oil and Egg Hatchability [ 109 ers retyped and helped with several revisions. Gail Dow prepared the figure. This paper is a contribution of the New York Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit; Cornell University, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Wildlife Management Institute cooperating. LITERATURE CITED ALBERS, P. H. 1977. Effects of external applications of fuel oil on hatchability of mallard eggs. In Fate and Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Marine Ecosystems and Organisms. D. A. Wolfe (ed.), p. 158-163. New York, Pergamon Press, Inc. 1978. The effects of petroleum on different stages of incubation in bird eggs. 10-year Index to Bird-Banding,

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Hatching Success of Great Black-Backed Gull Eggs Treated with Oil

McGill¹,

Richmond²

1979

Bird-Banding

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Embryotoxicity of weathered crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico in mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos)

Finch

Wooten

Smith

2011

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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Weathered crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico can result from oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon incident that occurred on April 20, 2010 or from natural seeps. Adult waterbirds of the Gulf Coast region may become exposed to weathered crude oil while foraging, wading, or resting, and residues can then be transferred to nests, eggs, and hatchlings. Although the toxicity of many types of crude oil to avian embryos has been thoroughly studied, the effects of weathered crude oil on developing avian embryos are not well characterized. The objective of the present study was to examine embryotoxicity of weathered crude oil collected from the Gulf of Mexico in June 2010 using mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) as a model species. Weathered crude oil was applied to fertilized mallard duck eggs by paintbrush in masses ranging from 0.1 to 99.9 mg on day 3 of incubation. Mortality occurred as early as day 7 and the conservatively derived median lethal application of weathered crude oil was 30.8 mg/egg (0.5 mg/g egg) or 30.7 µl/egg (0.5 µl/g egg). Body mass, liver and spleen mass, crown-rump and bill lengths, and frequency of deformities were not significantly different among hatchlings from oiled and control eggs. In comparison to published reports of fresh crude oil embryotoxicity, weathered crude oil was considerably less toxic. We conclude that avian toxicity varies according to the degree of crude oil weathering and the stage of embryonic development at the time of exposure. Results indicate bird eggs exposed to weathered crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico during summer 2010 may have had reduced hatching success.

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Effects of No. 2 fuel oil on common eider eggs

Albers

Szaro

1978

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Olympic Alliance oil spillage

Cited by 8 publications

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Hatching Success of Great Black-Backed Gull Eggs Treated with Oil

Hatching Success of Great Black-Backed Gull Eggs Treated with Oil

Embryotoxicity of weathered crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico in mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos)

Effects of No. 2 fuel oil on common eider eggs

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