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Wings on the River: Who can eat poison oak berries?

  • Flora Gibson
  • Updated

I watched a Ruby-Crowned Kinglet — a tiny, sage-green migrant the size of my dad’s thumb with a magical, hidden scarlet crown — gulp two greasy, toxic-to-humans poison oak berries last winter. Ever since, I’ve been wondering how birds survive eating this nutritious-but-nasty fruit.

Fisher threatened by pot farm poison
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Fisher threatened by pot farm poison

  • Jeff Barnard, The Associated Press
  • Updated

GRANTS PASS — Citing a threat from rat poison used on illegal marijuana plantations, federal biologists on Monday proposed Endangered Species Act protection for West Coast populations of the fisher, a larger cousin of the weasel. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published notice in the Federal Register that it wants to list the fisher as a threatened species in Oregon, California and Washington.