ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the contaminant exposures of granivorous birds. In lieu of collecting species-specific diet items, modeling of the soil contaminants into the items proceeds. The potential for hazard quotient's (HQ) to be misrepresentative are huge with this arrangement, particularly when people recall that birds commonly consume at least half of their weight daily. The chapter suggests that granivorous birds, a distinct category of bird considered often enough in terrestrial ecological risk assessment's (ERA). Enthused researchers will, even with the reading, anticipate what is next suggested as an ERA research task. A concerted effort to establish the actual concentrations of site contaminants in the diet items of other common ecological receptors and not just birds with still different feeding designs would be highly utilitarian. At the very least, people would be equipped with vastly improved dietary item concentrations to support the regular modeling that occurs.
