Tainted Loons, U.S. Senators Tackle EPA on Mercury
9th Sep 2005, 09:06 GMT
The scruffy loon chick let out an unpracticed version of the water bird's famed call as researchers tested it for mercury from its native northern New England, home to one of America's highest known concentrations of the dangerous toxin.
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