Landowner and bird experts cast doubt on Queensland government’s rat poison theory
So when apparently healthy bowerbirds began falling ill and dying in recent weeks on Tamborine, this trait raised the suspicion they had inadvertently collected a blue poison.and Facebook post, describing “reports attributing the recent deaths of a number of regent bowerbirds to blue/green snail bait”.
In the past few weeks, seven satin bowerbirds have died on Elli McDonald’s two-acre block. An eighth bird was found sick this week and euthanised. So she noticed when one became ill and died in the same spot a few days later, but didn’t think to report it. Then the situation repeated itself, again and again.
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