Owls eating rat poison isn’t a problem unique to Flaco, or New York City. St. Petersburg, Florida, began testing different rodenticide options last year after multiple owls across the area died ...

Eurasian eagle owls mostly eat small mammals, and Flaco has been known to favor rats. But they would take opportunities to eat other kinds of prey, like birds, Weidensaul tells NPR. While Eurasian ...

“While it is true that owls eat rats, they also eat a variety of small animals, including mice, frogs, birds, squirrels, snakes, fish, and lizards — they do not specifically target rats as ...

But rats that eat poison are easy prey for other wildlife, Huxman noted. Both pets and scavenger birds and mammals — from owls and hawks to racoons, foxes, skunks, coyotes, bobcats and mountain ...

Rodenticides were found in its system. The owl’s death was the latest raptor to die from eating rat poison. The first bald eagle to nest in Arlington in 50 years, MK, died from rodenticides in 2023.

which was caused by eating feral pigeons, and "exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commonly used for rat control" in the city. Flaco the owl had high levels of rat ...

We are probably inadvertently poisoning other native animals. Powerful owls do not eat many rats, they prefer to dine on native possums and gliders. The common brushtail possum, with its broad ...

Every padi planting season, farmer Abdul Aziz Hashim endures sleepless nights worrying about the crops on his 2ha padi field.

I am 100% certain Kate DiCamillo knows that owls eat rats and that’s one of the reasons I love her second “Orris and Timble” book, about an owl and a rat who are friends. The new one ...

I am 100% certain Kate DiCamillo knows that owls eat rats and that’s one of the reasons I love her second “Orris and Timble” book, about an owl and a rat who are friends. The new one ...