This is Winter

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Geoffrey wrote (amongst other things): "What I think is more striking is that these days my street trees often have more birds than any nearby woodland."

 

Interesting point. In my research for the GBS Report (and there are about 150 references included therein), I pretty much scoured the Aussie & international research on urban bird studies over the previous ten years. There is a lot written on that aspect that Geoffrey mentions. Too much to summarise here but I have included some brief mentions in the GBS Report. In course of that research, I would also add that there isn't anything anywhere that is as continuous over the year and continuous over a long time, that covers all species (rather than just one or a few), that is mostly stable in its method set and with a mostly volunteer group, as our GBS is. Although there are many other urban bird surveys around the world that are far bigger and older.  

 

Philip