Recent Articles on Plastics in Wildlife
Recent articles by The Wildlife Society and the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative blog.
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California tightens rules on rat poisons that kill wildlife
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill widely restricting the use of certain highly potent rat poisons that are blamed for killing mountain lions, birds and endangered wildlife.
Anticoagulant Rodenticides in Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) from New York City, New York, USA, 2012–2018
Okoniewski, J. C., VanPatten, C., Ableman, A. E., Hynes, K. P., Martin, A. L., & Furdyna, P. (2020). Anticoagulant Rodenticides in Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) from New York City, New York, USA, 2012–2018. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. Study Highlights: Anticoagulant rodenticides, principally difethialone, brodifacoum, and bromadiolone, were detected in the livers […]
California bobcat and mountain lion die from rodenticide
Necropsies determined the bobcat and mountain lion each died after being exposed to anticoagulant rodenticides.
Foraging behavior, contaminant exposure risk, and the stress response in wild California condors
Condors that feed on contaminated marine mammal carcasses or scavenge away from condor management sites may have higher stress responses.
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