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Lead has a "strong affinity to accumulate" as one of the conclusions of the doctoral thesis presented at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Murcia and has studied the in vitro effects of metals in three species of wild birds.

The author, Alejandro Hernandez Garcia, who has obtained excellent cum laude, studied the effects of lead, cadmium and their binary mixture in the mallard, the owl and the Buzzard.

The study revealed that the toxicity caused by cadmium has been "particularly striking" in the Buzzard, while lead had "a strong affinity to accumulate in the blood cells of the species studied.

This research was led by professors Juan Antonio Fernández García and Diego Romero García.

Source: Universidad de Murcia