Se “TableVILL. Radioactivity of Birds Collected at Rongelap Atoll, 1950-55) 0heee
Values expressed in thousands of d/m/g of wet tissue
Date
Island
Named/
Skin
3/26/54 Labaredj noddy tern
"
Kabelle
"
"
"
"
fairy tern
"
on
ao"
"
"
curlew
482.
51.0
555.
"
380.
4,970.
T/LG/54 Kabelle noddy tern
ee
"
.
"
"
"
"
fairy tern
mo
"
"
"
"
4
"
n
"
"
a: «7 12/8/54 Kabelle
—a
"
"
"
~
uo.
"
"
crested tern
"
curlew
"
noddy tern
' 1/26/55 Rongelap fairy tern
ce
'
"
"
"
"
n
mM
"
"
"
"
.
"
n
it
"
"
"
"
turnstone
oe
plover
"
"
"
"
fairy tern
1/28/55 Labaredj noddy tern
oo:
"
"
"
1/30/55 Gejen
a"
1/
™~
"
a
"
noddy tern
fairy tern
Noddy tern, Anous stolidus;
9.16
17.0
6.71
121.
68 .7
61.4
17.0
354.
9.40
110.
.693
1.22
1.02
573
1.29
1.33
.823
1.57
5.84
1.57
1.81
403.
2.53
3.72
6.78
3.15
.074
.102
111
1.21
1.31
591
912
.334
.556
361
.430
.107
2.19
331
829
‘776
279
6.92
150
851
2.39
.060
1.88
951
384
1.16
-
Bone
1.58
1.29
1.20
.621
-789
"
"
fairy tern
"
"
Muscle.
.118
.140
.330
.266
/
.623.5
.090
=. 045
358
«O41
.049
3.054
.108
Thyroid
Lung
39.0
23.4
14.0
13.8
72.0
59.0
27.0
15.0
37.0
79.0
298 .
9.00
20.0
14.0
3.70
20.0
24.0
«=#14.7
15.8
4.38
11.0
8.34
3.88
150.
11.2
(1.75
255
351
447
435
1.09
3.16
2.07
Hill)
381.56
2.05
.357
1.04
248
.552
2345
Liver
1.58
2.27
. 387
157
430
42.0
Kidney
53.0
65.0
12.8
31.0
291.
66.0
8.05
2.26
5.52. 5.93
3.29
21.8
13.5
.314
=. 508
~=—-.698
8.349
2.52
2.54
.68
1.99.
2.08
1.18
1,25
10.3
.391
.LA7
435
,124
291
.132
394 112
1.51
2.98
2.53
£995
1.10
1.63
1.21
.1.79
1.91
1.40
585
.558
=. 437
-.213
585
1.07
.295
.078
317
.223
240
curlew, Numenius sp.;
.800
490
1.04
.182
.217
.196
652
.566
934
.243
fairy tern, Gygis alba;
73.0
3.06
8.28
6.10
3°23
1.74
258
394
65.0
643.
793.
6.58
6.77
7.71°
4.85
.THO
.061
125 |
Oke
Tleum |
.085
.395
.154
-258
.069
.
.
1167
crested tern,
§terna bergil; turnstone, Arenaria interpres morinella; plover, Pliurialis dominica. .-