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Pigeons

Ever since humans established permanent agricultural settlements, we've lived side-by-side with the birds,

or as some people call them rats with wings.

They walk on our sidewalks, roost on our buildings, and eat our leftovers.

But soon, pigeons may help us identify risks to public health.

What we're doing here in my lab is we're assessing how we can use something that's been

considered a pest, that people actively try to exterminate the pigeon.

How can we use it to better the environment for not

only ourselves, but for pigeons and for other wildlife?

UC Davis neurobiologist Rebecca Kalisi. She looked at lead levels in blood samples for more

than 800 injured pigeons brought to a New York City Wildlife Rehabilitation Center,

and she compared those to lead levels and blood samples collected from children by the New York

City Department of Health in routine screening efforts. The results were published in the journal

Chemosphere. The neighborhoods where children have high rates of lead toxicity, that's where we

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