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...year because pelican eggs are collapsing and killing the embryos. The mothers ingested DDT which upset their calcium metabolism. That caused them to lay thin-shelled eggs that could not support their weight. Pelican eggs collapsed in the rookeries all the way from Anacapa to Mexico. The pelican, the osprey, the cormorant, the petrel, the seagull, the American Bald Eagle and the peregrine falcon: all of their eggs are collapsing, the shells are too thin. No new generations are being born...
America's only subtropical national park is a multitude of habitats-inland pine sloughs, vast saw grass savannahs, hardwood hammocks and coastal mangroves with myriad islands and canals. It is a refuge of 22 endangered species, including the bald eagle, osprey, snowy egret, Florida panther and alligator. Each year, more than a million visitors peer from trails and catwalks at the antics of exotic herons, bitterns and roseate spoonbills. They are mystified by the anhinga, a prehistoric bird that must spread and dry its wings after diving for fish, or drown from lack of natural-body-oil protection...
...just a fragile membrane. According to University of Wisconsin Ecologist Joseph Hickey, DDT has caused a disastrous decline in the population of the bald eagle, which is the U.S. national symbol-and the emblem of next week's Apollo 11 flight. Other predators, such as the osprey and peregrine falcon, are gradually vanishing, as are the brown pelican and the extremely rare Bermuda petrel...
...control bills without a single dissenting vote. The Wisconsin department of natural resources is in the midst of pesticide hearings. Among other things, DDT, with its long-lived potency, is blamed for causing birds to produce eggs with thin shells, thereby contributing to the disappearance of the bald eagle, osprey and peregrine falcon...
...with quasi-medieval flatness-from the Adams Museum in Quincy, Mass. From the Catskill (N.Y.) Public Library came a Prometheus Bound by pioneer U.S. Landscape Artist Thomas Cole; from Canajoharie, N.Y. a sensitive Italian Head by John Singer Sargent; and from Arizona State University, John James Audubon's Osprey and the Otter and the Salmon...