Effects of Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs) on Birds

The Persistent Organic Pollutants(POPs) are high toxic contaminant residues in environment.If the POPs came into organisms through the food chains,they would accumulate and remain for a long time and do harm.Recently,the research on POPs in organisms is one of the hot issues in environmental chemistry and ecological toxicology.This paper summarized the main types,environmental behaviors,natural resources,pollution effects of POPs,and discussed the harmful properties of POPs to birds,the characteristics of POPs accumulation in the tissues of birds,and the characteristics when using birds as indicator of environmental monitoring program.Some suggestions on POPs control and using waterbirds (eg.herons) as indicator in environmental monitoring were put forward as well.