The Connecticut Audubon Society's annual report says pesticides called neonics are devastating birds in the state.

Anchor butter and Birds Eye products aimed at children. A study by the Government's Pesticides Safety Directorate found the banned chemical DDT in a high proportion of samples of Anchor butter ...

Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of DDT contributed to the near extinction of bald eagles and other birds. The birds absorbed DDT by eating contaminated fish and subsequently laid defective eggs.

A widely used insecticide that's chemically similar to nicotine is slowly killing the state’s insect and bird populations, and the Connecticut Audubon Society is urging the General Assembly to take ...

"With focused attention on other species of greatest conservation need, future recovery success stories are also possible." ...

It was endangered in many places in the middle of the 20th Century due to hunting, loss of habitat and the use of DDT, an insecticide that makes the birds unable to lay eggs with strong shells.

But Dr Massaro said by the 1970s "it became apparent that DDT has all sorts of negative effects." "Especially with birds of prey … their egg shells would be extremely thin and they were dying ...

and that DDT, though scarce in the water, becomes concentrated as it works its way up the food chain -- from plankton to fish to birds and so on. Her message that humans cannot totally control ...