"GreenieLeBrun" wrote in message
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Tish wrote:
Hi All,

I was watching a TV vet the other night and he said that avocados were
toxic to parrots, but that parrots loved them. Does this mean that
home or orchard avocados are a lethal trap for local parrots and
cockatoos?

Thanks,
Tish

It would appear that avocados are toxic to birds especially parrots. I
did a goole search on avocados and parrots and avocados and birds and
it appears it is not an urban legend.

One from the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
demonstrated the budgerigars are more suseptable than canaries :-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Citation


Well there you go! The evidence is overwhelming...*sigh* I hang my head in
shame ! Still, I';m wondering how avocado farmers sweep all the dead
cockatoos under the rug....