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January 24, 2004

English Birdwatching Study

In England, they have a nation-wide birdwatching study, to track the numbers of all the bird populations. Do we have anything similar here? If not, we should.

Something I noticed in the article. It points out:

Since 1979 the study has charted the serious decline of the house sparrow, starling and song thrush and the rise of tits and collared doves.

This rather ironic, because the starling is running rampant here in California, and is very successful at pushing native birds out of areas. The problem has become so bad that some naturalists are destroying starling nests just so the native birds can struggle on. Maybe we could trap them, and ship them back to England?

Posted by Patrick Rogers at 07:59 AM | TrackBack

Comments

We have been doing it for over 100 years http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/

Posted by: Philip at January 24, 2004 08:08 AM

Ask, and ye shall receive! Thanks for the link. I've already penciled it into my Entourage Calendar (the Mac equivalent of Outlook). It's set to start up again Dec 14th 2004, so not for a while.

This is something everybody can do, so why not?

Posted by: Patrick Rogers at January 24, 2004 08:17 AM


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