Anticoagulant Residual Concentration and Poisoning in Birds Following a Large-Scale Aerial Application of 25 ppm Brodifacoum Bait for Rat Eradication on Rat Island, Alaska

• Published in: Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference
• Main Authors: Ebbert , Steve, Burek-Huntington , Kathy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2010
• Subjects: aerial broadcast; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; bird deaths; brodifacoum; ecosystem restoration; eradication; invasive; non-target poisoning; Norway rat; pesticides; Rat Island; Rattus norvegicus; rodenticides; secondary poisoning; Life Sciences; Falcon Rock; Finch; Fulmar; Norway; Northern Fulmar; peregrine falcon; Lapland
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/02v7t4mw

To eradicate invasive Norway rats, an aerial broadcast of the rodenticide Brodifacoum-25W Conservation was conducted on 2,777-ha Rat Island, within the Aleutian Islands Unit of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, between 29 September and 5 October 2008. During subsequent visits to Rat Island (...