When lead ammunition first flooded the battlefields during the Crimean and Civil Wars the intended targets were enemy soldiers. But in the century and a half since, the list of casualties has expanded to shooting victims, meat eaters, and scavenging birds. Lead poisoning can result in a cascade of fatal health effects in organisms, big and small; reproductive problems, delayed brain development, and paralysis are just a few examples. In her book Vulture, wildlife rehabber and Mountaineer 蜜柚APP president Katie Fallon gives a terrifying description of the damage on birds when they ingest lead fragments in carrion: Often, a Bald Eagle with lead poisoning cannot stand. Imagine the huge bird: once powerful, dark-brown wings that measure six feet from tip to tip, matted with green deced from where the eagle has fallen down in its own excrement. Imagine its long, yellow, claw-tipped talons balled into useless fists, its white-feathered head drooping down to its chest, its fierce...