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Because any shot that misses the target falls to the ground where birds eat it, resulting in lead poisoning. Birds mistake the lead shot for small stones which they regularly eat to store in their crop, a small muscular pouch where the stones mix with seeds and grind them up prior to being digested in the stomach.

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