Molting feathers and eggshells in monitoring rare bird species populations: Evidence from special protected natural territories
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33910/2686-9519-2024-16-1-117-127Keywords:
Amur River basin, reserve, natural park, Oriental White Stork, molted flight feathers, egg shell, trace elementsAbstract
This study was conducted to determine the possibility of using flight feathers and eggshells as bioindicators to assess the levels of accumulated trace elements in the bodies of rare birds. To achieve this goal, concentrations of elements, including toxic heavy metals, were determined in biological samples of the Oriental White Stork. The samples were obtained from nesting areas in the Khabarovsk Krai in specially protected natural areas: the State Nature Reserve "Bolonsky" and the Nature Park "Sheremetevsky" in the Amur River basin. The assessment of pollutant content in the edges and vane of flight feathers and in stork eggshells was performed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry on ICP-MS Elan 9000. It was found that the analysis of the composition of the edges of molted feathers and eggshells allows to assess the deposition level of trace elements from food chains, which characterizes this non-invasive method of bioindication is non-invasive and holds promise for the ecological monitoring of rare birds.
References
ЛИТЕРАТУРА
Андронов, В. А., Ардамацкая, Т. Б., Артюхин, Ю. Б. и др. (2011) Дальневосточный аист Ciconia boyciana Swinhoe 1873. В кн.: С. Г. Приклонский, В. А. Зубакин, Е. А. Коблик (ред.). Птицы России и сопредельных территорий: Пеликанообразные. Аистообразные. Фламингообразные. М.: КМК, с. 416–429.
Андронова, Р. С. (2000) Заметки о линьке у дальневосточного аиста (Ciconia boyciana Swinh.). В кн.: Н. М. Литвиненко (ред.). Дальневосточный аист в России: Материалы совещания «Дальневосточный аист: состояние популяции и стратегия сохранения». Владивосток, 13–15 ноября, 1999 г. Владивосток: Дальнаука, с. 86–88.
Войткевич, А. А. (1962) Перо птицы: морфология, развитие, линька и нейрогормональная регуляция. М.: Изд-во АН СССР, 285 с.
Добровольская, Е. В. (1984) Аккумулирование тяжелых металлов в перьевом покрове птиц. Известия АН СССР. Серия биологическая, № 2, с. 302–305.
Добровольская, Е. В. (2004) Тяжелые металлы в оперении птиц как природная метка. В кн.: Пищевые ресурсы дикой природы и экологическая безопасность населения: Материалы международной конференции (16–18 ноября 2004 г., г. Киров, Россия). Киров: ВНИИОЗ, с. 122–124.
Еськов, Е. К., Кирьякулов, В. М. (2008) Содержание тяжелых металлов в тканях уток, оседло зимующих в Московской области. Сельскохозяйственная биология, № 6, с. 115–118.
Красная книга Российской Федерации. Животные. (2021) 2-е изд. М.: Изд-во ВНИИ Экология, 1128 c.
Кривопишин, И. П., Злочевская, К. В. (1990) Инкубация. М.: Агропромиздат, 239 с.
Лебедева, Н. В. (1999) Экотоксикология и биогеохимия географических популяций птиц. М.: Наука, 199 с.
Никитина, И. А. (2013) Микроэлементы в экосистеме водно-болотных угодий бассейна Амура. В кн.: В. В. Ермаков (ред.). Биогеохимия и биохимия микроэлементов в условиях техногенеза биосферы: Материалы VIII международной Биогеохимической Школы. М.: ГЕОХИ РАН, с. 85–89.
Сливинский, Г. Г. (2013) Линные перья и яичная скорлупа водоплавающих птиц как неинвазивные биоиндикаторы экологического состояния аквальных экосистем. Вестник КазНУ. Серия экологическая, № 1 (37), с. 124–133.
Степанова, М. В. (2020) Определение содержания химических элементов в перьях журавлей как метод оценки состояния здоровья. Международный вестник ветеринарии, № 4, с. 49–56.
Тагирова, В. Т., Андронова, Р. С. (ред.). (2018) Дальневосточная черепаха озера Гасси. Хабаровск: Хабаровская краевая типография, 173 с.
Чернова, Е. Н., Коженкова, С. И. (2020) Пространственная оценка загрязнения залива Петра Великого (Японское море) металлами с помощью бурой водоросли SARGASSUM MIYABEI. Океанология, т. 60, № 1, с. 49–56. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0030157420010050
Borghesi, F., Dinellim, E., Migani, F. et al. (2017) Assessing environmental pollution in birds: A new methodological approach for interpreting bioaccumulation of trace elements in feather shafts using geochemical sediment data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 96–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12644
Burger, J. (1993) Metals in avian feathers: bioindicators of environmental pollution. Review of Environmental Contaminant Toxicology, vol. 5, pp. 203–311.
Kelsall, J. P., Pannekoek, W. J., Burton, R. (1975) Chemical variability in plumage of wild lesser snow geese. Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 75–163. https://doi.org/10.1139/z75-163
Markowski, M., Kaliński, A., Skwarska, J. et al. (2013) Avian feathers as bioindicators of the exposure to heavy metal contamination of food. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol. 91, no. 3, pp. 302–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-013-1065-9
REFERENCES
Andronovа, R. S. (2000) Zametki o lin’ke u dal’nevostochnogo aista (Ciconia boyciana Swinh) [Notes about molting of the Far Eastern stork (Ciconia boyciana Swinh)]. In: N. M. Litvinenko (ed.). Dal’nevostochnyj aist v Rossii: Materialy soveshchaniya “Dal’nevostochnyj aist: sostoyanie populyatsii i strategiya sokhraneniya”. Vladivostok, 13–15 noyabrya, 1999 g. [Far Eastern stork in Russia: Materials of the meeting “Far Eastern Stork: Population status and conservation Strategy”. 13–15 November, 1999]. Vladivostok: Dalnauka Publ., pp. 86–88. (In Russian)
Andronov, V. A., Ardamatskaya, T. B., Artukhin, Yu. B. et al. (2011) Dal’nevostochnyj aist Ciconia boyciana Swinhoe 1873 [Far Eastern stork Ciconia boyciana Swinhoe 1873]. In: S. G. Priklonskij, V. A. Zubakin, E. A. Koblik (eds.). Ptitsy Rossii i sopredel’nykh territorij: Pelikanoobraznye. Aistoobraznye. Flamingoobraznye [Birds of Russia and adjacent territories: Pelecaniformes. Storks. Phoenicopteriformes]. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press, pp. 416–429. (In Russian)
Borghesi, F., Dinellim, E., Migani, F. et al. (2017) Assessing environmental pollution in birds: A new methodological approach for interpreting bioaccumulation of trace elements in feather shafts using geochemical sediment data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 96–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12644 (In English)
Burger, J. (1993) Metals in avian feathers: Bioindicators of environmental pollution. Review of Environmental Contaminant Toxicology, vol. 5, pp. 203–311. (In English)
Chernova, E. N., Kozhenkova, S. I. (2020) Prostranstvennaya otsenka zagryazneniya zaliva Petra Velikogo (Yaponskoe more) metallami s pomoshch’yu buroj vodorosli SARGASSUM MIYABEI [Spatial Assessment of metal contamination in Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan) using the Brown Algae SARGASSUM MIYABEI]. Okeanologiya — Oceanology, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 49–56. https://doi.org/10.31857/S0030157420010050 (In Russian)
Dobrovol’skaya, E. V. (1984) Akkumulirovanie tyazhelykh metallov v per’evom pokrove ptits [Accumulation of heavy metals in the feather cover of birds]. Izvestiya AN SSSR. Seriya Biologicheskaya — Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Biological Series, no. 2, pp. 302–305. (In Russian)
Dobrovol’skaya, E. V. (2004) Tyazhelye metally v operenii ptits kak prirodnaya metka [Heavy metals in bird plumage as a natural marker]. In: Pishchevye resursy dikoj prirody i ekologicheskaya bezopasnost’ naseleniya: Materialy mezhdunarodnoj konferentsii (16–18 noyabrya 2004 g., g. Kirov, Rossiya) — Food resources of wildlife and environmental safety of the population: Materials of the international conference (16–18 November 2004, Kirov, Russia]. Kirov: VNIIOZ Publ., pp. 122–124. (In Russian)
Es’kov, E. K., Kir’yakulov, V. M. (2008) Soderzhanie tyazhelykh metallov v tkanyakh utok, osedlo zimuyushchikh v Moskovskoj oblasti [Content of heavy metals in the body of ducks, settled wintering in the Moscow region]. Sel’skokhozyajstvennaya biologiya — Agricultural biology, no. 6, pp. 115–118. (In Russian)
Krivopishin, I. P., Zlochevskaya, K. V. (1990) Inkubatsiya [Incubation]. Moscow: Agropromizdat Publ., 239 p. (In Russian)
Kelsall, J. P., Pannekoek, W. J., Burton, R. (1975) Chemical variability in plumage of wild lesser snow geese. Canadian Journal of Zoology, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 75–163. https://doi.org/10.1139/z75-163 (In English)
Lebedeva, N. V. (1999) Ekotoksikologiya i biogeokhimiya geograficheskikh populyatsij ptits [Ecotoxicology and biogeochemistry of geographic bird populations]. Moscow: Nauka Publ., 199 p. (In Russian)
Markowski, M., Kaliński, A., Skwarska, J. et al. (2013) Avian feathers as bioindicators of the exposure to heavy metal contamination of food. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol. 91, no. 3, pp. 302–305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-013-1065-9 (In English)
Nikitina, I. A. (2013) Mikroelementy v ekosisteme vodno-bolotnykh ugodij bassejna Amura [Trace elements in the wetland ecosystem of the Amur basin]. In: V. V. Ermakov (ed.). Biogeokhimiya i biokhimiya mikroelementov v usloviyakh tekhnogeneza biosfery: Materialy VIII mezhdunarodnoj Biogeokhimicheskoj Shkoly — Biogeochemistry and biochemistry of the trace elements in conditions of technogenesis of the biosphere: Materials of the VIII International Biogeochemical School]. Moscow: GEOKHI RAS Publ., pp. 85–89. (In Russian)
Krasnaya kniga Rossijskoj Federatsii. Zhivotnye [Red Data Book of the Russian Federation. Animals]. (2021) 2nd ed. Moscow: VNII Ecology Publ., 1128 p. (In Russian)
Slivinskij, G. G. (2013) Linnye per’ya i yaichnaya skorlupa vodoplavayushchikh ptits kak neinvazivnye bioindikatory ekologicheskogo sostoyaniya akval’nykh ekosistem [Moulting feathers and egg shell of waterfowl as а noninvasive bioindicators of ecological status of aquatic ecosystems]. Vestnik KazNU. Seriya ekologicheskaya. — KazNU Bulletin. Ecology series, no. 1 (37), pp. 124–133. (In Russian)
Stepanova, M. V. (2020) Opredelenie soderzhaniya khimicheskikh elementov v per’yakh zhuravlej kak metod otsenki sostoyaniya zdorov’ya [Determination of the content of chemical elements in crane feathers as a method of the health assessment]. Mezhdunarodnyj vestnik veterinarii — International Bulletin of Veterinary Medicine, no. 4, pp. 49–56. (In Russian)
Tagirova, V. T., Andronova, R. S. (ed.). (2018) Dal’nevostochnaya cherepakha ozera Gassi [Far Eastern turtle of Lake Gussi]. Khabarovsk: Khabarovsk Regional Printing House, 173 p. (In Russian)
Vojtkevich, A. A. (1962) Pero ptitsy: morfologiya, razvitie, lin’ka i nejrogormonal’naya regulyatsiya) [Bird feather: Morphology, development, molting and neurohormonal regulation)]. Moscow: Academy of Sciences of the USSR Publ., 285 p. (In Russian)
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Irina A. Nikitina, Rimma S. Andronova
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The work is provided under the terms of the Public Offer and of Creative Commons public license Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows an unlimited number of persons to reproduce and share the Licensed Material in all media and formats. Any use of the Licensed Material shall contain an identification of its Creator(s) and must be for non-commercial purposes only.
