Beyond honey bees, neonicotinoid pesticides now found to be killing baby birds

A class of pesticides widely blamed for a worldwide collapse in pollinator populations is also devastating populations of birds, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands and the Centre for Field Ornithology and Birdlife Netherlands, and published in the journal Nature on July 16. The chemicals, known as neonicotinoids, have increasingly come … Continue reading Beyond honey bees, neonicotinoid pesticides now found to be killing baby birds