Outdoor Vertebrate Flashcards
What are the three sides of the triangle of life?
Food, Water and Shelter
What government agency is primarily responsible for managing threatened and endangered species?
Department of Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Service
What agency has supervises wildlife control at airports?
FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)
The Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act protects all birds except what?
Feral pigeons, House Sparrows and Starlings
Name four common non-anticoagulant rodenticides.
Bromethalin, Calciferol, Strychnine and Zync Phosphide
Name 3 first generation anticoagulants.
Warfarin, Diphacinone and Chlorophacinone
Name the 3 second generation anticoagulants.
Difethialone, bodifacoum and Bromadiolone
Why were the second generation anticoagulants introduced in the early 1970’s?
To overcome pesticide resistance from first generation anticoagulants.
The active ingredient 4-aminopyridine is in what avicide?
Avitrol
Before using a fumigant what must be developed and followed?
Fumigation Management Plan (FMP)
How minimize the probability of pesticide resistance?
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.
What type of bait is Avitrol?
A frightening bait (it’s both a repellent and toxic bait)
What is pre-baiting?
By training pests to eat a particular bait before, than replacing it with a toxic version of the bait.
What is the single most important aspect of any bating program?
Pre-baiting
What is it called when pesticides are ingested by predators that feed upon plants and animals that have been exposed to the pesticide?
Bioaccumulation
What are the three species of special concern to vertebrate pest management in Colorado? (these species are either threatened or endangered)
Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse, Black-footed Ferret and Burrowing Owl
Black Footed Ferret are found exclusively where? Why?
Prairie Dog colonies because it’s their major prey source.
The Burrowing Owl are found primarily where and when?
Eastern Colorado during the summer season
The Preble’s Meadow Jumping Mouse is generally found where?
Along the Eastern edge of the Front Range in Colorado. Specifically around Boulder Colorado.
What is the movement of pesticides through the soil as apposed to erosion or runoff?
Leaching
What is the capacity of any substance to produce injury of death?
Toxicity
Hazard can be expressed as what equation?
Hazard = Toxicity x Exposure
What burrowing animal typically has the burrow entrance closed 99% of the time and mound about 3inches high and 18 inches in diameter?
Pocket Gopher
The Prairie Dog are the most social members of what common rodent family?
Squirrel
What burrowing animal does not actually hibernate, but will stay below ground for several days during cold, cloudy weather.
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
What rodent will sometimes go into hibernation when temperatures are high?
Ground Squirrels
What rodent can cause extensive damage by girdling plants and trees?
Vole
What animal has a characteristic white tipped tail?
The Red Fox
What migratory bird species is protected by the migratory bird treaty act and is hunted through state regulations? (Game birds)
Canada Goose
A federal permit is required before any lethal control methods can be employed for the type of migratory non-game bird?
The Woodpecker
Of the 25 species of snake un Colorado only 2 are venomous. What are they?
Western Rattle Snake and the Massasauga
