Ms Langley, co-founder of the non-profit wildlife ... It is illegal to intentionally kill or harm birds of prey and doing so can result in a prison term.

If a bill introduced in the Mississippi Legislature makes its way ... the biologists in the state what they need to study these birds," McKinion said. He sees money for conservation as a bonus.

Pesticides in general diminish insect prey. Nighthawks also ... by the hundreds on the Upper Mississippi. They’ve recovered throughout America, as declining birds and insects might.