ArticleAuthors: Kunisue, Tatsuya; Watanabe, Mafumi; Subramanian, Annamalai; Sethuraman, Alagappan; Titenko, Alexei M.; Vo, Qui; Prudente, Maricar; Tanabe, Shinsuke (2003)
Concentrations of organochlorine contaminants including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolites (DDTs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), chlordane compounds (CHLs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB) were determined in the resident and migratory birds, which were collected from India, Japan, Philippines, Russia (Lake Baikal) and Vietnam. Accumulation patterns of organochlorine concentrations in resident birds suggested that the predominant contaminants of each country were as follows: Japan—PCBs Philippines—PCBs and CHLs, India—HCHs and DDTs, Vietnam—DDTs, and Lake Baikal—PCBs and DDTs. The migratory birds from Philippines and Vietnam retained m...