Thanks to the shooting industry, billions of individual lead shotgun pellets are left to contaminate our wetland and terrestrial habitats – a toxic legacy for our environment and wildlife.

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Birds and animals are poisoned when they scavenge on carcasses containing lead-bullet fragments or ingest spent lead-shot pellets, which can blanket popular hunting grounds at high densities. A wealth ...

But recent forensic analysis of its skull found lead shot pellets, which were typically used to hunt wildfowl. Scientists hope to test the fragments to establish where the bird met its end.