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Controversial Pesticides Killing Wild Birds As Well As Bees

Staff Writer | The Telegraph | July 9, 2014

Controversial pesticides blamed for the loss of bee colonies may also be having much wider environmental effects and damaging wild bird populations, research has shown.
Scientists in the Netherlands linked declines in farmland bird species, such as starlings and tree sparrows, with a neonicotinoid chemical used to protect crops from insect pests...

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