Birders, get ready for first spring migration wave
Testing of 60 eggs of 23 wild species from across Maine found that all carried at least trace amounts of 100 industrial or household contaminants, occasionally at levels thought harmful to the birds. "We found mercury, flame retardants, industrial repellents, transformer coolants and pesticides in (the eggs of) birds that live on Maine's oceans, salt marshes, rivers, lakes and uplands," said Wing Goodale, senior biologist with the BioDiversity Research Institute in Gorham, the center for environmental science that carried out the research by biologists and...
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