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Nandina Berries Toxic to Cedar Waxwings

A veterinary necropsy of cedar waxwings that died en masse revealed crops full of nandina berries. While this one-time event doesn't warrant eradicating all nandina, it confirms that Nandina domestica berries can be lethal to these birds.

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