Interestingly enough, House Sparrows are on the decline in their home
country as well. They've raised an impressive amount of money to try
and save them.
http://www.bto.org/appeals/house_sparrow.htm
Regards,
Chris
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:14:13 +1000, Peter Woodall
<> wrote:
> The results of the Queensland Garden Bird Survey, (Sunbird 2002 32:37-51)
> mainly centred in SEQld, show that House Sparrows are still present but
> they have declined.
>
> In 1979/80 they were recorded from 69% of sites, in 53% of weekly records
> and with mean maximum numbers of 6.6.
>
> A similar survey conducted in 1999/2000, showed that they were recorded from
> 37% of sites, 18% of weekly records and mean maximum numbers of 1.0.
>
> So there has been a marked decline but it is not confined to the House
> Sparrow,
> 10 species declined by at least 10% over this period - these were small
> species,
> and 19 species increased by at least 10% and these were large species.
>
> Peter Woodall
>
>
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