No! I do not, and not because I support the use of pesticides at any cost. I do not. And, no one would be more pleased than me to see scientists and layman work together to find the answer to, and to correct, the quail decline. The top biologists and pathologists in research are collaborating as never before to find the answers to the bobwithe quail decline. If the answer had been as simple as "pesticides", they would have been able to identify it decades ago, when there were much more toxic insecticides in use than there are today. But, truth is they haven't. "Pesticides" is an easy scapegoat for the armchair expert to latch onto. Not so easy to look closer to home and see all the habitat loss, that stems from our demanding cheap food, convenience stores on every corner and pavement on every thoroughfare, then new trails for 4 wheelers, UTVs, off road 4WDs, etc.
There are unexplained resurgences in populations of other species, many of them songbirds, which, according to all the "experts" rise and fall according to the same sets of circumstances as quail. Guess they were wrong on that one, too,
No ........... just because a new "study" is released, of questionable heritage, does not mean I will drink the Kool-aid. Show me confirmation.
One last thought to, as Bro. Don says, ruminate upon........... if "pesticides" are a major cause of bobwhite quail's decline, why did they go away in places where no "pesticides" we're used for agriculture, wilderness areas hundreds of miles from the most limited uses of such?
SRH
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