Abstract
Concentrations of organochlorine pesticides were first reported in the Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) and its principal prey, the apple snail (Pomacea paludosa), by Lamont and Reichel (Auk 87:158-159, 1970), using material from Conservation Area 2A (CA2A) and Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in the northeastern part of the Florida Everglades, all collected between 1965 and 1967. Treatment of Surinam rice fields in 1971 with sodium pentachlorophenol (NaPCP) to control populations of freshwater snails (Pomacea glauca and P. lineata) that resulted in a die-off of Snail Kites was described by Vermeer et al. (Environ. Pollut. 7:217-236, 1974). They found high levels of NaPCP in tissues of 17 kites that they analyzed, and they attributed mortality to NaPCP poi-
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