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Toxic to birds Foods birds can eat Foods toxic to birds Fumes toxic to birds Toxic to Birds Alcohol, acetone, arsenic, antifreeze Ammonia 0 cleaning agents & accumulated excrement Bathroom bowl cleaners Bleach & Pool chemicals Carbon monoxide - car exhaust, furnace leaks, etc. Carbon tetrachloride Camphophenique Coal tar Copper, brass & silver cleaners Corn & wart remover Crayons Deodorants - Aluminum chloride, aluminum chlorydrate Denture cleaner - Sodium perborate Detergents (anionic) - Sulfonated or phosphorylated forms, alkaline Detergents (cationic) - Quaaternary ammonium w/alkyl or subsequent groups Drain cleaners - Sodium hydroxide, sodium hypochlorite Epoxy glue & model glue Ethanol - fruits that have been frozen, allowed to thaw & stand Ethylene glycol Fabric softeners Fireworks - Nitrates, chlorates, mercury, antimony, copper, strontium, barium, phosphorous Furniture & floor polish - Petroleum, hydrocarbons, mineral spirits Garbage Toxins Gasoline, Kerosene, Lighter fluid, & crude oil - Petroleum & petroleium distillates Gun powder & gun cleaners Hair dyes & permanent wave solutions - alcohol based hair sprays Insecticides, herbicides & garden sprays Indelible markers Iodine Lead - caulking, stained glass, costume jewelry, fishing & curtain weights, screening, old paint Linoleum - contains lead salts Marijuana - secondary smoke or residue on hands & clothing Matches - Potassium chloride Mirrors - contain mercury & lead Mothballs Nail polish & polish removers Natural gas Normal household compounds Non-stick cookware, drip pans, heat lamps, irons, ironing board covers Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE gas) Paint fumes Paint & varnish removers - Benzene, methanol, toluene, acetone Pencils - graphite Perfumes - Volatile oils Pine oil disinfectants - Pine oil 5-10%, phenols 2-6% Poor grade nuts, corn & cheese - Mycotoxins: aflatoxin, ochratoxin, trichothecenes Prescription & nonprescription drugs Rodenticides - Anticoagulants; cholecalciferol Rubbing alcohol -Ethyl Alcohol Sodium chloride - Salt, salt water, sea sand (grit) Shampoo - Laurel sulfates & triethanolamine dodecyl sulfate Shaving lotion Snail bait Sheetrock Shoe polish Some plants & flowers - check for specific plant Spot remover Styptic pencil - Potassium aluminum sulfate Suntan oil Super glue Tobacco - secondary smoke or consumption Turpentine Window cleaners Wood preservative Zoalene (DOT) Foods Birds Can Eat 9-grain cereal Egg Rice Krispies Alfalfa meal Endive Romaine Lettuce Apples Fresh sprouts Soybean Apricots Grapefruit Spinach Artichokes Grapes Squash Asparagus Green/red peppers Strawberry Banana Guava Sunflower Barley Honeydew Sweet Potato Beans (all types) Japanese persimmon   Beet greens Kelp Swiss chard Black Figs Kumquats Timothy Blackberries Mango Tomatoes Blueberries Marigold petals Turnip Bread sticks Millet Turnip greens Broccoli Mung beans Watercress Brussels sprouts Mustard leaves Watermelon Cabbage Okra Wheat Cauliflower Papaya Yams Celery Paprika Yogurt Cheerios Parsley Zucchini Cheese Pasta   Cherries Peach **This is not a complete Chicken (cooked) Pear     listing Chicory greens Peas ***ALWAYS FEED VARIETY Chili peppers Persimmons     AND IN MODERATION Cilantro Pineapple **** Never leave fresh Clover Plums         foods more than a    Clover (dry) Pumpkin         few hours Collard greens Radish   Collards Raisins   Corn Rape   Cranberries Red pepper   Cucumbers Red sorghum   Dandelion Rice   Foods Toxic To Birds Alcoholic drinks Eggplant Soft drinks Avocados/Guacamole Fatty foods Spoiled foods Chocolate Fried foods Sugar coated cereals Chocolate ice cream High salted foods Tea Coffee Raw mushrooms **if you wouldn't eat it, don't give it to your bird. Fumes Toxic To Birds   Asbestos Moth Balls Toilet Cleaners Bleach/Chlorine Nail Polish & Remover Wax Candles-scented Oil Paint This is not even close to a complete Carbon Monoxide Over Cleaner listing of toxic fume sources.  Always Cigarette Smoke Non-stick surfaces heated read labels and remember the birds Diazanon Paint Remover have a far more sensitive respiratory Duroflame Logs Perfume system than we do.  If you have any Flea Bombs & Collars Permanent Wave Solution doubts about the safety of a product - Floor Polishes Pesticides don't use it. Formaldehyde Shoe Polish & cleaners You can call your veterinarian, other Hair Dye & Spray Spot Removers educated bird people or the poison House Point (wet) Spray Starch control center @ 800-548-2423* Kerosene Suntan Lotions   Matches Surgical Acrylics