Eureka Reporter | 1904-06-17 | Page 7 | Birds Are Easily Poisoned

BIRDS ARE EASILY POISONED nature seems to have neglected to safeguard them birds seem to have no tion whatever in regard to poisons probably because they hae almost no sense df smell and swallow their food without masticating it they are ter rifled to paralysis by the appearance of a poison snake unless the terror be di e to dread of the appearance of the serpent rather than to an in her bcd knowledge of its is power but such intelligent birds as rooks will pick up and eat poisoned grain and and ravens readily eat poisoned egg or meat chickens will eat the poisonous seeds of babir and die a its effects whether birds uch as tits and greenf inches ever do so does not seem to be kno but wild birds are frequently found dying in gardens though apparently they have been in good health a few hours before and the death may be probably due to the consumption of poisonous seeds