A Comparison of Four Doses of Orally Administered Diazepam

摘要

Recovery techniques (eg, captive propagation or translocation) used to manage or augment existing populations of native Hawaiian forest birds often require that wild birds be captured and acclimated to captivity. Previous experience has shown that theassociated stress may cause smaller species (< 40 g body weight) to become moribund within a few hours of capture (J.G.M., oral communication, June 1996). These findings prompted an investigation into the possibility of using diazepam to improve the acclimation process. Because of their comparable size and easy availability, canaries {Serinus canarius) were used as surrogates for Hawaiian species.