> Randy asks: "If clothianidin seed
> treatment is indeed
> killing grain-eating birds, where are the dead corpses?"
>
> There is a lot of research that suggests carcasses don't
> last very long on the landscape due to scavenging ...
>
> Birds that eat seed coated with the pesticide can die after
> a single kernel ...
If one seed is sufficient to kill a bird, wouldn't it follow that 2-3 of these birds would kill the scavenger, whether crow, fox, coyote or whatever? It just seems that somewhere up the food chain there's gotta be carcasses!
Eugene Makovec
Missouri USA
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