Appendix Table 10
Gamma-Emitting Radionuclides in Birds and Eggs Collected at Bikini Atoly
June and August , 1969
Sample
No.
736
737
Tslet
Nam
Common
Name
No. of
Individuals
Curlew
738
739
40
Tissue
'
741
749
750
Turnstone
Oroken
Noddy tern
743
.
60
K
~
Muscle
-
—
-
_
2.1 +
Liver
-
6.7 1.5
# 7.8
_
Muscle
Liver
5
Muscle
9.1t 3.1
4.0 +
.24
5
Liver
9.74 4.5
7.6 =
.31
-87£
.51
Muscle
759
Eggs
9
Shell
760
761
762
9
9
9
Yolk
Albumin
Embryo
& Yolk
763
764
765
LO
LO
10
Shell
_
Yolk
Albumin
766
Lo
Embryo
& Yolk
~
767
768
3
3
Shell
Emorye
4.5 + .67
Residue in
water in which eggs
were boiled
.59
6
6
5
5
Liver
-
9.2t 7.6
-
~
34
* 1.0
+ 2.2
1.2 +4
.47
-
_
8.5+ 1.4
227+ 1.4
2,lt
7.72
23
AQ
.94
1.7
+5.5
~L9t
~L2+
~
2260
1510
-
520
+t 6.5
-
Muscle
Fairy tern
769
an
6.3 *t 1.5
11
+ 2.5
-
14
65
-
744
745
pci/g ary
Co
Muscle.
Liver
Liver
740
742
|
.06
.09
2434 .07
-
-
605
~
12
# 5.5
-
~
.14
.04
5.3
39
741
+ 7.6
860
+11
165
98
+ 2.9
+ 3.9
-46+
1.74 1.2
-
~
-
.28
-
-804 .24
~
-
~l6+
-19t
-604+
~
i=
-
2754
|
-
-
-
.25
~
22+
~21+
+ 8.4
.1l
.11
|
.17
~
7
_
~
L.l +
un
~
.41