Incidence of lethal bird poisoning reduced by regurgitation of pesticide-treated food

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 247-253

  Pascual, Juan A ^a   Hart, Andrew D M ^a   Fryday, Steve L ^a  

^a CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birds; Food avoidance; Pesticides; Regurgitation; Toxicity testing

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

BIRD; PESTICIDE; POISONING; TOXICITY TEST;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; DIET RESTRICTION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD REGURGITATION; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; VOMITING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0032962852     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<0247:IOLBPR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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