Preliminary estimates of bird damage to fruit crops made during 2012 show what fruit growers already know: Fruit production can be for the birds—at least a good part of it. The estimates were made in the Pacific Northwest, New York, and Michigan as part of a $2 million project funded under the Specialty Crop Research Initiative. The grant was made to Michigan State University in the fall of 2011. The principle investigator Dr. Catherine Lindell, an associate professor of zoology at MSU, heads a team of 21 researchers across North America who are studying the economic costs of bird damage […]