Substances Toxic to Our Birds

• Alcohol
• High-fat junk food (potato chips, nachos, doughnuts, etc.)
• Salt
• Avocado
• Chocolate
• Moldy Foods
• Mushrooms (some varities)
• Raw meat
• Raw poultry
• Raw onions

Miscellaneous

• Ant Syrup or paste
• Antifreeze
• Asbestos
• Aspirin
• Bathroom bowl cleaner
• Boric Acid
• Camphophenique
• Clinitest tablets
• Copper and brass cleaners
• Corn and wart removers
• Crayons
• Detergents
• Fire Crackers
• Furniture polish
• Galvanized metal (if galvanized coating is coming off)
• Gunpowder
• Gun Cleaner
• Insecticides
• Lead shot
• Linoleum (contains lead salts)
• Lye
• Match tips
• Moth balls
• Muriatic acid
• Prescription and non-prescription drugs
• Shoe polish
• Stained glass windows (leading)
• Silver polish
• Snail bait
• Zinc items
• All lead items, foil, curtain weights, fishing weights

Potential Dangers

• Frayed electrical wiring
• Hot pot, pan, utensils
• Hot water from tap
• Lit electric stoves
• Lit gas stoves
• Lit wood stoves
• Poisonous plants
• Rotating window or ceiling fans
• Uncurtained windows.

• Aerosol propellant
• Aerosol ingredient
• Bleach
• Carbon dioxide
• Carbon monoxide
• Charcoal lighter
• Chlordane
• Chlorine
• Corn and Wart remover
• Deodorants
• Drain Cleaners
• Epoxy glue
• Fabric softeners
• Flea bombs
• Floor cleaners
• Floor polish
• Formaldehyde
• Gasoline
• Garden Sprays
• Hair spray, dyes
• Hexachlorophene (in some soaps)
• Indelible markers
• Kerosine
• Lighter fluid
• Model glue
• Nail polish and remover
• Naphtha products
• Oven cleaners
• Paints, lacquers, varnish, shellac
• Paint remover, thinner
• Perfume
• Permanent wave solutions
• Pesticides
• Photographic solutions
• Pine oil
• Propane
• Podenticides
• Rubbing alcohol
• Shaving lotion
• Spot remover
• Spray starch
• Smoke
• Syrychnine
• Super glue
• Suntan lotion
• Teflon
• Turpentine
• Wax
• Weed Killers