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lead pellets are seen in an X-ray of a Canada goose at the DuPage Wildlife Conservation Center in Willowbrook. From left: Chicago Bird Collision Monitors; Sarah Reich/DuPage Wildlife Conservation ...

Thanks to the shooting industry, billions of individual lead shotgun pellets are left to contaminate our wetland and terrestrial habitats – a toxic legacy for our environment and wildlife.

X-rays determined the goose had eaten lead pellets. From Nov. 15 to Dec. 7, volunteers captured sick geese nearby. Some were found in retention ditches off North Avenue in Lombard, at North ...

The red dot in the CT scan represents the lead pellet used to seal the vacuum insulation layer in Stanley’s popular Quencher model. Image: Courtesy of Lumafield A CT scan of Stanley’s viral ...