Lead Toxicity in Mute Swans

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Firstly, I thank my parents and family who always encouraged my
interests in birds, and supported my education
I would like to express my sincere thanks to Professor Alan Myers
for his help and guidance, as ·
my supervisor, throughout the entire
period of my research.
I am grateful to Professor Barry Duggan, Biochemistry Laboratory,
Cork Regional Hospital for his friendly advice and for provision of
facilities at his laboratory.
I would like to thank Professor Maire F. Mulcahy, Head of
Department of Zoology, University College Cork for providing research
facilities and guidance throughout the study and Mr. Joe Philpott for
technical facilities.
I would like to say thank you to the following people;
Dr. D.E.A. Murray, Dr. P.S. Giller, Dr. T.F. Cross, Dr. T.C. Kelly and
Dr. C.H. Hawkey for helpful discussion.
Mr. R. McNamara,
Ms. S.O'Driscoll, Ms. N. Buttimer and Ms. E.O'Reardan for laboratory
and field assistance. Ms. I.O'Sullivan for patience and secretarial
advice;
Mr. B. Crowley, Mr. N.O'Leary, Mr. N.O'Sullivan,
Mr. T. Hurley, Ms. M.O'Connell, Ms. M. Morrison for helpful discussion
and advice for biochemical laboratory work;
Ms. J. Morrison and
Ms. M.Honohan and Dr. P Barret for radiological facilities;
Mr. P. Smiddy, Mr. D. McMahon and the staff of the forestry and
wildlife servive; Mr. T. O'Connor CSPCA for his help with swan corpse
collection; Mr. D. Fitzgerald for bags of bread.
I acknowledge Ms. M. Cole, Dr. D. Barry and Mr. M O'Halloran for
statistical and computing advice.
Mr. R. Collins, Mr. I. Forsyth,
Mr. T. Carrauthers, Mr. P. Brennan, Mr. B. O'Mahony, Mr. F. Buckley and
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