Outdoor Vertebrate

Question 1

What are the three sides of the triangle of life?

Answer 1

Food, Water and Shelter

Question 2

What government agency is primarily responsible for managing threatened and endangered species?

Answer 2

Department of Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service

Question 3

What agency has supervises wildlife control at airports?

Answer 3

FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

Question 4

The Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act protects all birds except what?

Answer 4

Feral pigeons, House Sparrows and Starlings

Question 5

Name four common non-anticoagulant rodenticides.

Answer 5

Bromethalin, Calciferol, Strychnine and Zync Phosphide

Question 6

Name 3 first generation anticoagulants.

Answer 6

Warfarin, Diphacinone and Chlorophacinone

Question 7

Name the 3 second generation anticoagulants.

Answer 7

Difethialone, bodifacoum and Bromadiolone

Question 8

Why were the second generation anticoagulants introduced in the early 1970’s?

Answer 8

To overcome pesticide resistance from first generation anticoagulants.

Question 9

The active ingredient 4-aminopyridine is in what avicide?

Answer 9

Avitrol

Question 10

Before using a fumigant what must be developed and followed?

Answer 10

Fumigation Management Plan (FMP)

Question 11

How minimize the probability of pesticide resistance?

Answer 11

Apply at rates indicated on the label, replenish persistent application at the recommended intervals, use a different chemical class for a full season ever second or third year,, asses susceptibility at the beginning and middle of each season, combine all control measures into a practical IPM program and treat the most susceptible life stage of the pest.

Question 12

What type of bait is Avitrol?

Answer 12

A frightening bait (it’s both a repellent and toxic bait)

Question 13

What is pre-baiting?

Answer 13

By training pests to eat a particular bait before, than replacing it with a toxic version of the bait.

Question 14

What is the single most important aspect of any bating program?

Answer 14

Pre-baiting

Question 15

What is it called when pesticides are ingested by predators that feed upon plants and animals that have been exposed to the pesticide?

Answer 15

Bioaccumulation

Question 16

What are the three species of special concern to vertebrate pest management in Colorado? (these species are either threatened or endangered)

Answer 16

Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse, Black-footed Ferret and Burrowing Owl

Question 17

Black Footed Ferret are found exclusively where? Why?

Answer 17

Prairie Dog colonies because it’s their major prey source.

Question 18

The Burrowing Owl are found primarily where and when?

Answer 18

Eastern Colorado during the summer season

Question 19

The Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse is generally found where?

Answer 19

Along the Eastern edge of the Front Range in Colorado. Specifically around Boulder Colorado.

Question 20

What is the movement of pesticides through the soil as apposed to erosion or runoff?

Answer 20

Leaching

Question 21

What is the capacity of any substance to produce injury of death?

Answer 21

Toxicity

Question 22

Hazard can be expressed as what equation?

Answer 22

Hazard = Toxicity x Exposure

Question 23

What burrowing animal typically has the burrow entrance closed 99% of the time and mound about 3inches high and 18 inches in diameter?

Answer 23

Pocket Gopher

Question 24

The Prairie Dog are the most social members of what common rodent family?

Answer 24

Squirrel

Question 25

What burrowing animal does not actually hibernate, but will stay below ground for several days during cold, cloudy weather.

Answer 25

Black-tailed Prairie Dog

Question 26

What rodent will sometimes go into hibernation when temperatures are high?

Answer 26

Ground Squirrels

Question 27

What rodent can cause extensive damage by girdling plants and trees?

Answer 27

Vole

Question 28

What animal has a characteristic white tipped tail?

Answer 28

The Red Fox

Question 29

What migratory bird species is protected by the migratory bird treaty act and is hunted through state regulations? (Game birds)

Answer 29

Canada Goose

Question 30

A federal permit is required before any lethal control methods can be employed for the type of migratory non-game bird?

Answer 30

The Woodpecker

Question 31

Of the 25 species of snake un Colorado only 2 are venomous. What are they?

Answer 31

Western Rattle Snake and the Massasauga