With the increasing emphasis on pesticides (e.g. Brit. Birds 91: 163), it is perhaps timely to highlight the role of the UK Wildlife Incident Investigations Scheme (WIIS), run by the UK's Agricultural Departments. The WIIS investigates deaths of wildlife, as well as pets and livestock, in cases where there is evidence to suggest that pesticide poisoning may be involved. Post-mortems are carried out

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