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Subject:	Re: Bird group calls for ban on neonic seed treatments
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Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:04:09 -0700
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> 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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