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—A more complete understanding of nonhunting and harvest mortality for Mourning Doves (Zenaida macroura) will be critical to improving regional and national harvest management decisions. Poisoning from ingested lead shot is of particular concern in Mourning Doves, which are often hunted on managed shooting fields where lead shot densities can be high, potentially increasing the risk of lead exposure. Previous studies of lead exposure in Mourning Doves have been local in scope and sample sizes have varied widely among areas. We provide an evaluation of lead exposure in 4,884 hunter-harvested Mourning Doves from Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Overall, the frequency of ingested lead pellets in gizzards of doves on hunting areas where the use of lead shot was permitted was 2.5%, although we found a high degree of variability among locations. On areas where nontoxic shot was required, 2.4% of Mourning Doves had ingested steel shot. Hatch year (HY) doves had a greater frequency of ingested lead and steel pellets than after hatch year (AHY) birds, suggesting that they either ingested pellets more frequently or that young birds with ingested shot were preferentially harvested over older birds with ingested pellets. In doves without ingested lead pellets, bone lead concentrations were lower on an area requiring the use of nontoxic shot than on areas allowing the use of lead shot. Received 3 June 2008, accepted 8 August 2008. FRANSON, J. C., S. P. HANSEN, AND J. H. SCHULZ. 2009. Ingested shot and tissue lead concentrations in Mourning Doves. In R. T. Watson, M. Fuller, M. Pokras, and W. G. Hunt (Eds.). Ingestion of Lead from Spent Ammunition: Implications for Wildlife and Humans. The Peregrine Fund, Boise, Idaho, USA. DOI 10.4080/ilsa.2009.0202

Ingested Shot and Tissue Lead Concentrations in Mourning Doves