Migrating songbirds can become disoriented after eating insecticide-laden seeds
TORONTO, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017 – Songbirds exposed to widely used insecticides during migration pit stops on farmland could lose significant body weight and became disoriented, research by York University and the University of Saskatchewan has found. The researchers exposed white-crowned sparrows on spring migration to realistic doses of two different insecticides – imidacloprid, a […]