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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP09 Oct 2019 11:44 a.m. PST

"The study found that white-crowned sparrows who consumed small doses of an insecticide called imidacloprid suffered weight loss and delays to their migration—effects that could severely harm the birds' ability to survive and reproduce.

"We saw these effects using doses well within the range of what a bird could realistically consume in the wild—equivalent to eating just a few treated seeds," said Margaret Eng, a post-doctoral fellow in the USask Toxicology Centre and lead author of the study.

Eng's collaborators on the research were biologist Bridget Stutchbury of York University and Christy Morrissey, an ecotoxicologist in the USask College of Arts and Science and the School of Environment and Sustainability…."
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jdpintex10 Oct 2019 5:13 a.m. PST

Such studies have been finding impacts since the 70s.

This particular study found an impact for a specific insecticide not insecticide(s).

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP25 Oct 2019 9:29 p.m. PST

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