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Diet analysis and the assessment of plastic and other indigestible anthropogenic litter in the white stork pellets

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dc.abstract.enPollution by anthropogenic litter is a major threat to global ecosystems. Seabirds are frequently used as environmental monitors of litter ingestion, but similar research is rare for terrestrial birds. Here, we focused on pellet analysis from 117 nests of an iconic bird of the Western Palearctic, the white stork (Ciconia ciconia), breeding in southern and southwestern Poland in a farmland landscape, far away from large dumps and landfills. We found that most prey items in the diet of white storks were invertebrates (particularly from orders Coleoptera, Orthoptera, and Hymenoptera) but vertebrate prey comprised most of the biomass. Further analysis revealed that anthropogenic litter was found in 22.7% of pellets (34.2% of breeding pairs) with plastic (8.4%) and cigarette filters (6.9%) being most prevalent. This study represents the first assessment through pellet analysis of the ingestion of anthropogenic litter by live wild storks in Poland and also by a migratory population of white storks. Our study indicates a potentially significant transfer of plastic and other anthropogenic material through terrestrial food webs.
dc.affiliationWydział Medycyny Weterynaryjnej i Nauk o Zwierzętach
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Zoologii
dc.contributor.authorMikula, Peter
dc.contributor.authorKarg, Jerzy
dc.contributor.authorJerzak, Leszek
dc.contributor.authorWalasz, Kazimierz
dc.contributor.authorSiekiera, Joachim
dc.contributor.authorCzyż, Stanisław
dc.contributor.authorMikicińska, Katarzyna
dc.contributor.authorPietkiewicz, Małgorzata
dc.contributor.authorSztwiertnia, Hanna
dc.contributor.authorWyka, Jakub
dc.contributor.authorTryjanowski, Piotr
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-07T12:19:17Z
dc.date.available2025-01-07T12:19:17Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.bibliographyil., bibliogr.
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dc.description.number5
dc.description.points100
dc.description.volume31
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11356-023-31710-2
dc.identifier.eissn1614-7499
dc.identifier.issn0944-1344
dc.identifier.urihttps://sciencerep.up.poznan.pl/handle/item/2283
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationbiological sciences
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research
dc.relation.pages6922-6928
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.subject.enanthropogenic liter
dc.subject.enbiological indicators
dc.subject.endiet composition
dc.subject.enmicroplastic
dc.subject.enpellet analysis
dc.subject.enterrestrial ecosystems
dc.titleDiet analysis and the assessment of plastic and other indigestible anthropogenic litter in the white stork pellets
dc.typeJournalArticle
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oaire.citation.volume31