March 6, 7, & 8, 1984
Sacramento, California

EDITOR: DELL O. CLARK
ASSISTANT EDITORS: REX E. MARSH and DOROTHY E. BEADLE

Arranged by the VERTEBRATE PEST COUNCIL OF THE VERTEBRATE PEST CONFERENCE
Published at the University of California, Davis, California 95616 June 1984

1984

CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

ELEVENTH VERTEBRATE PEST CONFERENCE

SUCCESS IN RAT CONTROL IN KUWAIT, K.S. Al-Sanei, T.M. Zaghloul, A.M. Salit, M.T. Omar, and M.M. Balba

HAZARDS TO GOLDEN-MANTLED GROUND SQUIRRELS AND ASSOCIATED SECONDARY HAZARD POTENTIAL FROM STRYCHNINE FOR FOREST SECONDARY POCKET GOPHERS, R. Michael Anthony, Gerald D. Lindsey, and James Evans

BIRD DAMAGE CHRONOLOGY AND FEEDING BEHAVIOR IN TWO SUNFLOWER FIELDS, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, 1982, Michael L. Avery and Richard DeHaven

COMMINGLING OF NORWAY AND ROOF RATS WITH NATIVE RODENTS, Rex O. Baker

EFFICACY OF THREE ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDES FOR THE CONTROL OF POISON-SHY Rattus rattus, Devendra Bhardwaj and Ishwar Prakash

PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRIMETHACARB AS A BIRD REPELLENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, R.L. Bruggers, P. Sultana, J.E. Brooks, L.A. Fiedler, M. Rimpel, S. Manikowski, N. Shivanarayan, N. Santhaiah, and I. Okuno

REPELLENT OR AVERSIVE CHEMICALS IN SHEEP NECK COLLARS DID NOT DETER COYOTE ATTACKS, Richard J. Burns, Guy E. Connolly, and Richard E. Griffiths Jr.

VOLE CONTROL IN FIELD CROPS, Jerry P. Clark

PERFORMANCE OF SODIUM CYANIDE EJECTORS, Guy Connnolly and Gary D. Simmons

NUISANCE BATS: CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IN THEIR MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, Robert L. Corrigan

WOODPECKERS: A SERIOUS SUBURBAN PROBLEM?, Scott R. Craven

KEYNOTE ADDRESS—POLITICS OF PESTICIDES, David H. Dietz

RAT CONTROL IN ALBERTA, Michael J. Dorrance

CURRENT STATUS OF RESEARCH ON THE BLACKBIRD-SUNFLOWER PROBLEM IN NORTH DAKOTA, Joseph L. Guarino

BIOLOGICAL RATIONALE FOR 1080 AS A PREDACIDE, Walter E. Howard and Robert H. Schmidt

GULL EXCLUSION, George W.J. Laidlaw, Hans Blokpoel, Victor E.F. Solman, and Margaret McLaren

STROBE LIGHT AND SIREN DEVICES FOR PROTECTING FENCED-PASTURE AND RANGE SHEEP FROM COYOTE PREDATION, Samuel B. Linhart

RESISTANCE TO THE SECOND-GENERATION ANTICOAGULANT RODENTICIDES, Mogens Lund

CHOLECALCIFEROL: A UNIQUE TOXICANT FOR RODENT CONTROL, Edward F. Marshall

EFFICACY OF A TWO-INGREDIENT FUMIGANT ON RICHARDSON'S GROUND SQUIRRELS, George H. Matschke and Kathleen A. Fagerstone

FERAL EQUINE MANAGEMENT AT THE NAVAL WEAPONS CENTER, Thomas J. McGill

THE TREATMENT OF ACCIDENTAL ANTICOAGULANT TOXICITY IN THE CANINE, James G. Miller

RESEARCH ON WINTER ROOSTING BLACKBIRDS AND STARLINGS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES, Donald F. Mott

EFFICACY OF A NUMBER OF TOXIC BAITS AND BATTING AGAINST THE VOLES, Microtus agrestis and Arvicola terrestris , Marvo Myllymaki

OPENING REMARKS—ELEVENTH VERTEBRATE PEST CONFERENCE, Dell O'Clark

AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO POCKET GOPHER FUMIGATION, Lloyd F. Plesse

CLOSING REMARKS—ELEVENTH VERTEBRATE PEST CONFERENCE, Terrell P. Salmon

AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW TO CALIFORNIA GROUND SQUIRREL CONTROL, Terrell P. Salmon and Robert H. Schmidt

PREDATOR MANAGEMENT FOR DUCKS ON WATERFOWL PRODUCTION AREAS IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS, Alan B. Sargeant and Phillip M. Arnold

Impact of the Belding’s Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus beldingi, on Alfalfa Production in Northeastern California, Warren C. Sauer

TOXIC CHARACTERISTICS OF FLUOROCITRATE, THE TOXIC METABOLITE OF COMPOUND 1080 , Peter J. Savarie

EFFICACY OF BRODIFACOUM (TALON) BAIT AGAINST THREE RODENT SPECIES , Y. Saxena and R.K. Sharma

POTENTIAL PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HAZARDS OF AVICIDES, E.W. Schafer Jr.

EFFICACY TEST PROTOCOLS FOR EVALUATION OF ULTRASONIC RODENT REPELLENT DEVICES, Stephen A. Schumake, G. Keith LaVoie, and Kenneth Crane

ALDEHYDE VOLATILES FOR USE AS COYOTE ATTRACTANTS, Jerry H. Scrivner, Walter E. Howard, and Roy Teranishi

A WEATHER-RESISTANT TRACKING BOARD, D.S. Shepherd and J.H. Greaves

THE USE OF WILD CARNIVORE SEROLOGY IN DETERMINING PATTERNS OF PLAGUE ACTIVITY IN RODENTS IN CALIFORNIA, Charles R. Smith, Bernard C. Nelson, and Allan M. Barnes

A NEW CONCEPT IN POCKET GOPHER CONTROL, Allen D. Tunberg, Walter E. Howard, and Rex E. Marsh

THE WHITE-EYES ERADICATION EFFORT IN CALIFORNIA, Valerie Van Way

HISTORY AND STATUS OF PREDATOR CONTROL IN TEXAS, Dale A. Wade, Donald W. Hawthorne, Gary L. Nunley, and Milton Caroline

ACUTE RODENTICIDES IN THE CONTROL OF RODENT PEST IN CHINA: A REVIEW, Zuwang Wang

RODENT CONTROL IN CHINA, Deng Zhi and Wang Cheng-Xin