Birds - Household Toxic Items
Many items around our house such as plants and household cleaners are toxic to birds. Birds have very small lungs and fumes from any aerosol may kill them.
Household Poisons
  • Acetone
  • Ammonia
  • Ant syrup or paste
  • Antifreeze
  • Arsenic
  • Asbestos
  • Bathroom bowl cleaner
  • Bleach
  • Boric acid
  • Caffeine
  • Camphophenique
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Carbon tetrachloride
  • Charcoal lighter
  • Chlorine
  • Chocolate
  • Cigarette smoke
  • Cleaners
  • Clinitest tablets
  • Copper and brass
  • Corn and wart remover
  • Crayons
  • Deodorants
  • Detergents
  • Diaz anon
  • Dishwasher detergent
  • Disinfectants
  • Drain cleaners
  • Epoxy glue
  • Fabric softeners
  • Flea bombs/collars
  • Floor polish
  • Formaldehyde
  • Furniture polish
  • Garbage toxins
  • Garden sprays
  • Gasoline
  • Gun cleaner
  • Gunpowder
  • Hair dyes
  • Hair spray
  • Herbicides
  • Hexachlorophene (in some soaps)
  • Indelible markers
  • Insecticides
  • Iodine
  • Kerosene
  • Lead
  • Lighter fluid
  • Linoleum (contains lead salts)
  • Lye
  • Matches
  • Model glue
  • Mothballs
  • Muratic acid
  • Mushrooms
  • Nail polish
  • Nail polish remover
  • Non-stick cookware
  • Oven cleaner
  • Paint
  • Paint remover
  • Paint thinner
  • Perfume
  • Permanent wave solutions
  • Pesticides
  • Photographic Solutions
  • Pine oil
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
  • Prescription and Non-Prescription drugs
  • Red squill
  • Rodenticides
  • Rubbing alcohol
  • Saliva-Cat, & human
  • Scotch Guard
  • Shaving lotion
  • Shoe cleaners/polish
  • Silver polish
  • Silverstone
  • Snail bait
  • Spot remover
  • Spray starch
  • Strychnine
  • Sulphuric acid
  • Suntan lotion
  • Super glue
  • Surgical acrylics
  • Teflon
  • T-fal
  • Toilet bowl cleaner
  • Turpentine
  • Wax (floor or furniture)
  • Weed killers
  • Window cleaners
  • Wood preservative
Toxic Plants and Trees
  • Amaryllis
  • American yew
  • Avocado
  • Azalea
  • Balsam pear
  • Baneberry
  • Bird of paradise
  • Black locust
  • Blue-green algae
  • Boxwood
  • Buckthorn
  • Buttercup
  • Caladium
  • Calla lily
  • Castor bean (castor oil plant)
  • Chalice vine
  • Cherry tree
  • Christmas candle
  • Clematis
  • Coral plant
  • Cowslip
  • Cyclamen
  • Daffodil
  • Daphne
  • Datura
  • Deadly amanita
  • Death camas
  • Delphinium
  • Dieffenbachia
  • Eggplant
  • Elephants ear (taro)
  • English ivy
  • English yew
  • False henbane
  • Fly agarics mushroom (deadly amanita)
  • Foxglove
  • Glory bean
  • Golden chain (laburnum)
  • Hemlock, poison
  • Hemlock, water
  • Henbane
  • Holly
  • Horse bean
  • Horse chestnut
  • Hyacinth
  • Hydrangea
  • Indian turnip (jack-in-the-pulpit)
  • Iris (blue flag)
  • Ivy
  • Jack-in-the-pulpit
  • Japanese yew
  • Java bean (lima bean)
  • Java bean philodendron
  • Oleander
  • Poinsettia
  • Poison ivy
  • Poison oak
  • Pokeweed (inkberry)
  • Potato
  • Privet
  • Rhododendron
  • Rhubarb
  • Rosary pea (Indian licorice)
  • Sandbox tree
  • Skunk cabbage
  • Snowdrop
  • Snow-on-the-mountain (ghostweed)
  • Sweet pea
  • Tobacco
  • Virginia creeper
  • Western yew
  • Wisteria
  • Yam bean
  • Yew
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