Research about rodenticide impacts on wildlife
Duncan BJML, Koenders A, Burnham Q, Lohr MT (2020) Mus musculus populations in Western Australia lack VKORC1 mutations conferring resistance to first generation anticoagulant rodenticides: Implications for conservation and biosecurity. PLoS ONE 15(9): e0236234. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal
Husbandry Guidelines for Masked Owl
Cherie Neasbey 2008. Western Sydney Institute of TAFE, RichmondPay JM, TE Katzner, CE Hawkins, LA Barmuta, WE Brown, JM Wiersma, AJ Koch, NJ Mooney, EZ Cameron (2021). Endangered Australian top predator is frequently exposed to anticoagulant rodenticides. Science of The Total Environment, 788, 147673.
Cooke R, P Whiteley, Y Jin, C Death, MA Weston, N Carter, JG White (2022). Widespread exposure of Powerful Owls to second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides in Australia spans an urban to agricultural and forest landscape. Science of the Total Environment 819 (2022) 153024.
Mooney N (2017). Risks of anticoagulant rodenticides to Tasmanian raptors. Tasmanian Bird Rep. 38, 17-25
Advice on rodenticides
Rodenticide Regulation
FURTHER READING ABOUT OUR NOCTURNAL BIRDS
‘Birds of prey of Australia: a field guide’
by Stephen Debus, CSIRO Publishing 2019‘Owls, Frogmouths and Nightjars of Australia’
by David Hollands, Bloomings Books 2008‘Tawny Frogmouth’
by Gisela Kaplan, CSIRO Publishing 2018Liddelow_Wheeler_Kavanagh_OwlsinWA_Chapter21 Owls in the Southwest Forests of Western Australia
by G Liddelow and R Kavanagn 2002Kavanagh RP (1996). The breeding biology and diet of the Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae near Eden, New South Wales. Emu – Austral Ornithology, 96(3): 158-165.
Kavanagh RP and Murray M (1996). Home range, habitat and behaviour of the Masked Owl Tyto novaehollandiae near Newcastle, New South Wales. Emu -Austral Ornithology, 96(4): 250-257
Davis RA, Joseph L and Johnstone RE (2022). Status of Barking Owl Ninox connivens in south-west Australia. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 142(3) : 366-376