permaculture

[Bob Ewing & Jocelyn Paquette <sixdegrees@baynet.net>]

Greetings here are two sites, there are many otehrs that discuss songbird
decline:

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/birdsite/text/essays/Eastern_Songbirds.html

http://whyfiles.org/006migration/bird_loss.html

Bob Ewing

Claude Genest wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> As some of you remember, I'm gathering info to combat the forces of darkness
> that wish to spray my entire county for mosquitoes, ostensibly to "control "
> West Nile Virus even though there's not been a single reported case of of it
> up here !
>
> Anyway, in re-reading "SILENT SPRING", the late great RAchel Carson makes
> the observation that there's no better pesticide than songbirds, the very
> creatures that have been decimatd  by chemical pesticides ( they eat the
> worms that ingest the pesticides)
>
> I'm looking for some stats/info on the decline of songbirds...Any leads ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Claude
>
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