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      A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors

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          Birds of prey, owls and falcons are widely used as sentinel species in raptor biomonitoring programmes. A major current challenge is to facilitate large-scale biomonitoring by coordinating contaminant monitoring activities and by building capacity across countries. This requires sharing, dissemination and adoption of best practices addressed by the Networking Programme Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe (EURAPMON) and now being advanced by the ongoing international COST Action European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility. The present perspective introduces a schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors. We provide guidance on sample collection with a view to increasing sampling capacity across countries, ensuring appropriate quality of samples and facilitating harmonization of procedures to maximize the reliability, comparability and interoperability of data. The here presented protocol can be used by professionals and volunteers as a standard guide to ensure harmonised sampling methods for contaminant monitoring in raptors.

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          Tracking pan-continental trends in environmental contamination using sentinel raptors—what types of samples should we use?

          Biomonitoring using birds of prey as sentinel species has been mooted as a way to evaluate the success of European Union directives that are designed to protect people and the environment across Europe from industrial contaminants and pesticides. No such pan-European evaluation currently exists. Coordination of such large scale monitoring would require harmonisation across multiple countries of the types of samples collected and analysed-matrices vary in the ease with which they can be collected and the information they provide. We report the first ever pan-European assessment of which raptor samples are collected across Europe and review their suitability for biomonitoring. Currently, some 182 monitoring programmes across 33 European countries collect a variety of raptor samples, and we discuss the relative merits of each for monitoring current priority and emerging compounds. Of the matrices collected, blood and liver are used most extensively for quantifying trends in recent and longer-term contaminant exposure, respectively. These matrices are potentially the most effective for pan-European biomonitoring but are not so widely and frequently collected as others. We found that failed eggs and feathers are the most widely collected samples. Because of this ubiquity, they may provide the best opportunities for widescale biomonitoring, although neither is suitable for all compounds. We advocate piloting pan-European monitoring of selected priority compounds using these matrices and developing read-across approaches to accommodate any effects that trophic pathway and species differences in accumulation may have on our ability to track environmental trends in contaminants. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10646-016-1636-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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            An overview of existing raptor contaminant monitoring activities in Europe.

            Biomonitoring using raptors as sentinels can provide early warning of the potential impacts of contaminants on humans and the environment and also a means of tracking the success of associated mitigation measures. Examples include detection of heavy metal-induced immune system impairment, PCB-induced altered reproductive impacts, and toxicity associated with lead in shot game. Authorisation of such releases and implementation of mitigation is now increasingly delivered through EU-wide directives but there is little established pan-European monitoring to quantify outcomes. We investigated the potential for EU-wide coordinated contaminant monitoring using raptors as sentinels. We did this using a questionnaire to ascertain the current scale of national activity across 44 European countries. According to this survey, there have been 52 different contaminant monitoring schemes with raptors over the last 50years. There were active schemes in 15 (predominantly western European) countries and 23 schemes have been running for >20years; most monitoring was conducted for >5years. Legacy persistent organic compounds (specifically organochlorine insecticides and PCBs), and metals/metalloids were monitored in most of the 15 countries. Fungicides, flame retardants and anticoagulant rodenticides were also relatively frequently monitored (each in at least 6 countries). Common buzzard (Buteo buteo), common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), white-tailed sea eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), tawny owl (Strix aluco) and barn owl (Tyto alba) were most commonly monitored (each in 6-10 countries). Feathers and eggs were most widely analysed although many schemes also analysed body tissues. Our study reveals an existing capability across multiple European countries for contaminant monitoring using raptors. However, coordination between existing schemes and expansion of monitoring into Eastern Europe is needed. This would enable assessment of the appropriateness of the EU-regulation of substances that are hazardous to humans and the environment, the effectiveness of EU level mitigation policies, and identify pan-European spatial and temporal trends in current and emerging contaminants of concern. Copyright © 2014. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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              Progress on bringing together raptor collections in Europe for contaminant research and monitoring in relation to chemicals regulation

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                silvia.espin@um.es
                j.andevski@4vultures.org
                guy.duke@skynet.be
                igor.eulaers@outlook.com , ie@bios.au.dk
                pilargomez@um.es
                gunnih@hi.is
                Bjorn.Helander@nrm.se
                dorte.herzke@nilu.no
                veerle.jaspers@ntnu.no
                KRONE@izw-berlin.de
                lourenco@uevora.pt
                pmmojica@um.es
                emmaml@um.es
                Rafael.Mateo@uclm.es
                paola.movalli@naturalis.nl
                pablo.s.v@um.es
                rfs@ceh.ac.uk
                cs@bios.au.dk
                nico.vandenbrink@wur.nl
                bertvanhattum@gmail.com
                al.vrezec@nib.si
                chris.wernham@bto.org
                ajgf@um.es
                Journal
                Ambio
                Ambio
                Ambio
                Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )
                0044-7447
                1654-7209
                12 May 2020
                12 May 2020
                January 2021
                : 50
                : 1
                : 95-100
                Affiliations
                [1 ]GRID grid.10586.3a, ISNI 0000 0001 2287 8496, Area of Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, , University of Murcia, ; Campus Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain
                [2 ]Vulture Conservation Foundation, Wuhrstrasse 12, 8003 Zurich, Switzerland
                [3 ]GRID grid.4991.5, ISNI 0000 0004 1936 8948, Environmental Change Institute, , Oxford University Centre for the Environment, ; South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY UK
                [4 ]GRID grid.7048.b, ISNI 0000 0001 1956 2722, Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Technical Sciences, , Aarhus University, ; Frederiksborgvej 399, POBox 358, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
                [5 ]GRID grid.14013.37, ISNI 0000 0004 0640 0021, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, , University of Iceland, ; Sturlugata 7, 102 Reykjavik, Iceland
                [6 ]GRID grid.425591.e, ISNI 0000 0004 0605 2864, Environmental Research and Monitoring, , Swedish Museum of Natural History, ; Frescativägen 40, PO Box 50007, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden
                [7 ]NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Hjalmar Johansen Gate 14, 9296 Tromsö, Norway
                [8 ]GRID grid.5947.f, ISNI 0000 0001 1516 2393, Environmental Toxicology Group, Department of Biology, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ; Høgskoleringen 5, NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway
                [9 ]Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institut for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Alfred-Kowalke-Str. 17, 10315 Berlin, Germany
                [10 ]GRID grid.8389.a, ISNI 0000 0000 9310 6111, MED - Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, LabOr, IIFA, , Univ. Évora, ; Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal
                [11 ]Santa Faz” Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, Alicante, Generalitat Valenciana Spain
                [12 ]GRID grid.452528.c, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC–CSIC, UCLMJCCM), ; Ronda de Toledo 12, 13005 Ciudad Real, Spain
                [13 ]GRID grid.425948.6, ISNI 0000 0001 2159 802X, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, ; PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
                [14 ]GRID grid.9835.7, ISNI 0000 0000 8190 6402, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, ; Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4AP UK
                [15 ]GRID grid.4818.5, ISNI 0000 0001 0791 5666, Sub-Division of Toxicology, , Wageningen University, ; Box 8000, 6700 EA Wageningen, The Netherlands
                [16 ]GRID grid.12380.38, ISNI 0000 0004 1754 9227, Dep. Environment and Health, Faculty of Science, , VU University Amsterdam, ; De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
                [17 ]GRID grid.419523.8, ISNI 0000 0004 0637 0790, Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research, , National Institute of Biology, ; Večna pot 111, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
                [18 ]GRID grid.11918.30, ISNI 0000 0001 2248 4331, British Trust for Ornithology (Scotland), Unit 15 Beta Centre, , Stirling University, ; Innovation Park, Stirling, FK9 4NF Scotland
                [19 ]GRID grid.457192.c, ISNI 0000 0000 9868 4658, Slovenian Museum of Natural History, ; Prešernova 20, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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                10.1007/s13280-020-01341-9
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                History
                : 31 March 2020
                : 22 April 2020
                : 22 April 2020
                Funding
                Funded by: European Cooperation in Science and Technology
                Award ID: European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility COST Action (CA16224)
                Award Recipient :
                Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100014440, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades;
                Award ID: Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación contract, IJCI-2017-34653
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                best practices,birds of prey,falcons,large-scale biomonitoring,owls,pan-european network
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