| mercury in non-breeding sparrows of north carolina salt marshes. | we captured nelson's, saltmarsh and seaside sparrows (ammodramus nelsoni, a. caudacutus and a. maritimus) at three salt marsh sites near wrightsville beach, north carolina during five non-breeding seasons (september through april, 2006-2011). we analyzed breast feather samples from all of these seasons and blood and first primary feather (p1) samples from three seasons (2008-2011) for mercury (hg). generalized linear models were used to test for the impact of species, season, site and month on b ... | 2012 | 21947667 |