Methylmercury Effects on Birds: Percent Injury Tool

Welcome to The Bird Mercury Tool website. Please follow the guidance below to download the tool and user guide.
The Bird Mercury Tool: Estimating Methylmercury Injury to Birds can be used by practitioners to help interpret injury to birds caused by methylmercury concentrations in bird tissues or diet.
The dataset, statistical models, and assumptions used within this tool have been published separately and should be referred to for further information and interpretation. After entering information into the tool about the mercury concentration in bird tissues or diet, the tool will return the estimated injury to birds based on the modeling results within the following publication:

Ackerman, J. T., S. H. Peterson, M. P. Herzog, and J. L. Yee. 2024. Methylmercury effects on birds: A review, meta-analysis, and development of toxicity reference values for injury assessment based on tissue residues and diet. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5858.

This publication’s modeling results uses information described in the following dataset:

Ackerman, J. T., S. H. Peterson, M. P. Herzog, and J. L. Yee. 2024. Methylmercury effects on birds: Bibliography and dataset for the development of toxicity reference values for injury assessment: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9F8UPGF.

This tool can be cited as:

Ackerman, J. T., M. P. Herzog, S. H. Peterson, and J. L. Yee. 2024. The Bird Mercury Tool: Estimating methylmercury injury to birds: U.S. Geological Survey Software Release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MSD8X0.