| mercury in forage fish from mexico and central america: implications for fish-eating birds. | mercury (hg) is a global contaminant of aquatic food chains. aquatic birds, such as the osprey (pandion haliaetus), with migratory populations breeding in canada and the northern united states and wintering in the central and south america, can be exposed to mercury on both the breeding and wintering ranges. we examined hg levels in 14 fish taxa from 24 osprey wintering sites identified from satellite telemetry. our main goal was to determine whether fish species that feature in the diet of over ... | 2015 | 26194303 |