| relating body condition to inorganic contaminant concentrations of diving ducks wintering in coastal california. | in wild waterfowl, poor winter body condition may negatively affect migration, survival, and reproduction. environmental contaminants have been shown to adversely affect the body condition of captive birds, but few field studies have examined body condition and contaminants in wild birds during the winter. we assessed the body condition of carcasses from a collection of canvasbacks (aythya valisineria) and lesser (a. affinis) and greater scaup (a. marila) wintering in coastal california. we used ... | 2002 | 11706369 |