South Florida’s wading and diving birds had another bad nesting season in 2012 | Bird decline, insect decline and neonicotinoids

According to the South Florida Wading Bird report, released this week, wading and diving birds built about 26,395 nests in the region, a 39 percent decline in the 10-year average. This was the third consecutive year nesting numbers have been down after a spike in 2009, which produced 77,505 nests, the highest total since the 1940s.