VOOUS KH (1959) Short announcements: Strange death of a Buzzard Buteo buteo. LIMOSA 32 (1): 70-71.

Strange death of a Buzzard Buteo buteo On March 18, 1958 by Mrs. Van Rhijn in Dibbits Kloosterbos in Houthem (L.), a dead buzzard found. The bird, by mediation of Mr P. A. HENS at the Zoo Logical Museum was ceded, was thin and weighed about 550 grams. Since the bird poisoning feared, was sent the body for examination at the State Serum Equipment to Rotterdam. However, this institute was the next, revealing message, which is expressed here thank you: In this section emaciated corpse was in a crop large, partially digested already coarse cotton cloth of a free dust detected. The crop output was thus completely closed. In the stomach there was no food. Toxicologically research, especially on strychnine and parathion went negative and bacteriological examination. Presumably, the animal is to you ~ Following starvation death. Buzzard Buteo buteo

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