POISONING OF ROOKS
Results Of Recent Campaign Officers of the Department of Agriculture in Christchurch have atarted a rook-poisoning campaign, using as bait bread soaked in ■odium fluoroacetate. Although the birds are no longer gathered in huge rookeries, but are dispersed in smaller groups, 1400 have been killed in three poisonPoisoning has been confined mainly to the Halkett area. On one farm, 500 dead rooks were picked up the morning after the first poisoning. The bait is laid in paddocks where rooks are known to be feeding. “I think we have the answer to the rook problem in the poison,” said the chairman of the Rook Control Committee (Mr J. R. Parish) yesterday. "We cannot eliminate them entirely, but given time we can greatly reduce their numbers.”
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 15
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127POISONING OF ROOKS Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 15
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