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FYI, many rats now have rodenticide poison in their systems and may
be toxic to hawks and owls when eaten. See this scary info: <br>
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text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><i>As of May 2020, an
on-going research project to evaluate effects of rodenticides
on raptors by the Urban Raptor Conservancy has studied 60
deceased urban raptors (20 barred owls). They were taken to
PAWS in Lynwood and tested for rodenticides in their livers.</i></b></p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
latoitalic; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b><i>Overall, 82% of
the birds tested positive for at least 1 anticoagulent
rodenticide</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>73% of those birds had 2 different rodenticides</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>55% had 3 or 4 different rodenticides</i></b><b><i><br>
</i></b><b><i>The percentage is even higher for owls alone
because they eat rodents almost exclusively and their livers
cannot metabolize the poisons as well.</i></b></p>
Takeaway: poisoning rats is not an easy and straightforward
solution if you care about hawks and owls.<br>
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Martha<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/9/2021 12:21 PM, Linda Pietras
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The dead rat is still in the middle of the road as of about
11:30. Not quite the "dead stunk in the middle of the road"
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 9, 2021 11:58 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Summit] Rats in the neighborhood</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Given that we know that rats have set
up housekeeping here, ie there is
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a resident colony that proves hard to eliminate, i would
take very <br>
seriously the advice of the exterminators we are now
paying: don't set <br>
out birdseed or petfood at least for now.<br>
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On 6/8/2021 7:46 PM, John Bazik wrote:<br>
> Hi Mike. Not to minimize the problem, but I'd say
it's more <br>
> occasional than new. Sometimes construction or
renovation pushes them <br>
> out into the open. I've seen them before 2020...<br>
><br>
> John<br>
><br>
> On 6/8/21 5:45 PM, Michael McGlynn wrote:<br>
>> This morning there was a dead rat in the street
on Top close to Chace <br>
>> Avenue. There has been an increase of rat
activity in the <br>
>> neighborhood. I never saw a rat in 10 years
living in this <br>
>> neighborhood until 2020. Last year and this, I've
seen more rats that <br>
>> I'd care to.<br>
>><br>
>> Rats go where there is food. Most people's trash
is binned but there <br>
>> are still food sources. PLEASE don't feed the
birds until we can get <br>
>> this problem under control.<br>
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