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This chapter reviews the principal impacts upon bird populations of the uses of biocidal chemicals. Of necessity, the coverage is restricted to those areas of the world for which sufficient information is available. A principal conclusion of this review, however, is that the major impacts of current biocide uses on birds are in the Third World countries, where restrictions are uneven and where effects are largely undocumented.
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