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7 October 2024 Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticide Toxicosis in a Wild Carnaby's Cockatoo (Zanda latirostris)
Anna Le Souëf, Michael Lohr, Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins, Katrina Wood, Flaminia Coiacetto
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Abstract

A wild male Carnaby's cockatoo (Zanda latirostris) was presented to a veterinary hospital after falling from a tree. The bird showed few clinical signs during the first days of hospitalization. On Day 4, the cockatoo showed excessive hemorrhage at a venipuncture site, epistaxis, and significant anemia (packed cell volume, 15%). The cockatoo was euthanized due to ongoing blood loss, weakness, and inappetence. Liver concentrations of brodifacoum (0.439 mg/kg wet weight) and difenacoum (0.033 mg/kg wet weight) had a total anticoagulant rodenticide concentration of 0.472 mg/kg wet weight and were above the threshold for toxicity for many avian species. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first time that anticoagulant rodenticide intoxication has been identified in a wild Australian psittacine species.

Anna Le Souëf, Michael Lohr, Rebecca Vaughan-Higgins, Katrina Wood, and Flaminia Coiacetto "Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticide Toxicosis in a Wild Carnaby's Cockatoo (Zanda latirostris)," Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery 38(3), 162-166, (7 October 2024). https://doi.org/10.1647/AVIANMS-D-24-00014
Published: 7 October 2024
KEYWORDS
anticoagulant
Australia
Avian
Carnaby's Cockatoo
rodenticide
toxicity
Zanda latirostris
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