Did foot-and-mouth disease-control operations affect rodenticide exposure in raptors?

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 588-593

  Shore, Richard F ^a   Malcolm, Heath M ^a   Mclennan, Donna ^a   Turk, Anthony ^a   Walker, Lee A ^a   Wienburg, Claire L ^a   Burn, Alastair J ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant rodenticide; Barn owl; Bromadiolone; Buteo buteo; Buzzard; Difenacoum; Foot and mouth disease; Liver residue; Secondary exposure; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; PESTICIDE; RAPTOR;

BUTEO BUTEO; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA;

EID: 33646692278     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[588:DFDOAR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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