The compound, a second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide (SGAR), seems to be a serious problem for urban wildlife.Īccording to Dr. What also struck her, however, was aside from blood that had collected around its beak, the barn owl, who with several younger birds often roosted in a hackberry tree in front of her home, had no other apparent injuries.Īs Wallace later would learn from a toxicology report performed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Wildlife Investigations Lab, the owl had died from a toxic dose of brodifacoum, a compound commonly found in rodenticides, or rodent poison. “She was still soft and warm,” Wallace said. It’s easy to imagine, then, Wallace’s dismay last month when she and her dog stepped outside to find a barn owl lying motionless in the grass in her front yard. Even a small pond dug into the earth offers the urban animals who come and go a water source. Squirrels nibble at ears of corn carefully laid about the ground.
Davis resident Cayce Wallace has transformed her back yard into a wildlife sanctuary.
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