Subject: GULLS KILLED BY CHOCOLATE POISONING
Date: Mar 1 23:30:32 2001
From: WAYNE WEBER - contopus at home.com


Birders,

I thought the attached note by Kyle Elliott, posted on the BCVANBIRDS
group, might be of interest. I had no idea that chocolate was toxic to
birds and some mammals, but it is! I will also forward another
message from Kyle with more details.

Wayne C. Weber
Kamloops, BC
contopus at home.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Kyle Hamish Elliott <kelliott at physics.ubc.ca>
To: <bcvanbirds at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 5:52 PM
Subject: [bcvanbirds] death by chocolate


> Hi all,
>
> The word is back from the vets about the deaths of a large number of
gulls
> in Delta witnessed by Brian Scott; they seem to have died from
eating
> chocolate. Possibly, a large load was dumped at the landfill earlier
that
> day but the people at the landfill have no record of it. This might
also
> explain why no eagles were affected (if it was toxins I would
imagine they
> would be accumulated up the food chain).
>
> For better news, I had 245 eagles on my last raptor count (the area
north
> of Hwy 99 in Delta, basically), 220 of which were in the landfill.
There
> were 93 adults and 127 juveniles.
>
> Kyle Elliott
> Langley BC
>