We always breathe a sigh of relief when fall approaches, and we congratulate ourselves for surviving the spring and summer baby season. However, there really is no “down time” in wildlife rehabilitation. Some local wildlife still think it’s time to have babies, like squirrels, rabbits, and the occasional dove or pigeon. But for the young born in spring, the autumn months test their skills at finding food and shelter, usually the first time without their mo...
Part 12 - Summary and Conclusion
In our last eleven segments we covered 19 human-related causes of wild bird mortality (by-catch, domestic cats, collision mortality, methane gas burners, oil spills, pesticides, power lines, wind farms, trash, acid rain, oil and wastewater pits, horseshoe crab harvesting, disease, invasive species, renewable energy, coal mining, lead poisoning, hunting, and wildlife trafficking).
Our objective for this series had been t
Rodenticides by definition are any agents that kill, repel or control rodents. Wikipedia defines rodenticides as "pest control chemicals intended to kill rodents". Many rodenticides, in fact most used in the United States, include anticoagulants as the primary ingredient. Anticoagulants are usually classified as first generation or second generation.
Those classified as second generation have a much longer duraiton of action and include brodifacoum and
Not long ago, someone asked my advice about a bee hive in her yard. I contacted Ruth Brooks at Freedom Center for Wildlife and she steered me to the New Jersey Beekeepers Association. I knew there was a crisis in the honey bee population, but I learned a whole lot more - including that the honeybee is New Jersey's State insect, and that it's illegal to kill them in the Garden State. Most North American honeybees are the gentle, Italian variety. Honeybees w...
