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No idea, it was just an observation I made. The 3 dead grackles were found over the course of several months. The flesh of the fruit isn't good for them birds, but it shouldn't kill them. The skin and the pit on the otherhand will caue cardiac distress and eventual heart failure for birds.
I was trying to be facetious but apparently I missed. Your 2 post seem not support each other. The first makes it sound like the death of the birds coincided with the fruiting of the tree. The second post says the dead birds were found over a period of several months. I sometimes find dead birds in my yard but I don't have an Avocado tree.
Your first post says you were "pretty sure" they had fed off the fruit that had fallen to the ground. What made you so sure?
The first post says Avocado is poisonous, the second says it isn't good for birds. Which is it? Cheeseburgers may not be good for me but that doesn't make them poisonous [thank goodness].
Your first post says you 'know for a fact" Avocados are poisonous to all birds. Your second post says It isn't good for them but it shouldn't kill them. Most confusing.
As to the pits being poisonous to chickens I've asked on other posts, how would a chicken go about eating an Avocado pit?
Bottom line-Avocados aren't poisonous to birds. As someone else here said, if you can eat it they can eat it.
I wish people wouldn't state absolute facts when they don't really know what they're talking about.
Google it then if you're unsure? Seems like you simply skimmed through my post and made accusations and attempted to "nicely" insult me. First post, avocados in general are toxic to birds. Second post? The pulp, meat, flesh, etc, is simply not good to feed at all due to risks of persin (the toxic substance to birds) seeping into it from the skin or pit. But there are people who have fed avocados without harm, but that doesn't mean it's harmless? The skin and pit are what you should look out for. For my avocado tree, it produced fruit during spring, summer, and fall, meaning there was months of opurtunity. The grackles are there every year, only that year I found several dead and that year was the first time the tree gave fruit. They spend a lot of time in my front yard, where the tree is. Also, did I say I was absolutely sure their deaths were due to the fruit? No, but it ranked pretty high on the list of possibilties. The fruit produced came in all different sizes, each one with a pit ranging from the sie of a marble to one the size of a baseball. For the smaller ones, the birds can easily swallow it hole. I've seen them swallow acorns whole with ease. Even a chicken can rip off chunks, the pit isn't rock hard. "If you can eat it they can eat it". Does that mean I can feed my birds chocolate? It annoys me that whenever someone finds what they think is a mistake, they jump all over it.
