Scientists tracked endangered Australian cockatoos for three breeding seasons and found pesticides in 80% of seed samples, some hundreds of times above regulatory limits
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Scientists tracked endangered Australian cockatoos for three breeding seasons and found pesticides in 80% of seed samples, some hundreds of times above regulatory limits

Zoe Kissane says the birds often ate at seed spills around agricultural operations (Supplied: Murdoch Univeristy) Scientists tracking endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos across Western Australia’s Wheatbelt over three breeding seasons found worrying levels of chemical contamination in the birds’ food. Four out of five seed […]

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