[Tweeters] Exposure to neurotoxic rodenticide bromethalin in birds of prey -- ScienceDaily

Comcast kristinstewart01 at comcast.net
Wed Jul 26 20:26:13 PDT 2023


Sorry, sent too soon, and not a techie…

Kristin

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> On Jul 26, 2023, at 8:23 PM, Comcast <kristinstewart01 at comcast.net> wrote:

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> Have been using hot peppered covered seed available from Wild Birds, Olympia food Co-op, that rodents will not eat, or at least avoid. Not all is available in that form but some an

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> Sent from my iPad

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>>> On Jul 17, 2023, at 5:45 AM, Tom Benedict <benedict.t at comcast.net> wrote:

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>> We’ve tried to minimized out bird->rat feeding by adding a tray under our suet cakes to catch much of the waste that is dropped by the feeding birds. It may have helped able bit. We stopped feeding with birdseed years ago.

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>> The bird control rat bait looks like a very appealing alternative. A similar approach has been used some places for mosquito/malaria control, although I haven’t followed the outcomes.

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>> Tom Benedict

>> Seahurst, WA

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>>> On Jul 16, 2023, at 09:20, Alan Roedell <alanroedell at gmail.com> wrote:

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>>> Interesting article. If you feed birds, you're feeding rats. What's to be done?

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>>> On Sun, Jul 16, 2023, 2:28 AM Dan Reiff <dan.owl.reiff at gmail.com> wrote:

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>>>> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230711133304.htm

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