It is important to remember that the sparrow in the UK has been declared
threatened on the basis of its rate of decline, not its abundance.
Sparrows are still common but due to long-term records an alarming rate
of decline has been detected. If only we had more long-term data on
Australian species we would be able to get away from the idea of
declaring species threatened on the basis of their abundance by which
time it may be too late.
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From:
On Behalf Of Dave Torr
Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2008 11:55 AM
To: Alan Gillanders
Cc: Birding-Aus Aus
Subject: Bring Back the Sparrows?
They seemed fairly common around Dover in England whilst I was there
recently. But I did not record them in many other places in Southern
England - although it was not primarily a birding trip.
2008/6/25 Alan Gillanders <>:
> G'day,
> I got the impression in Germany that the house sparrow was doing very
> nicely. I had never been there at the end of winter for any length of
time
> before but found them to be everywhere I had recorded them before.
While I
> keep no abundance records my feeling was that they were as numerous as
> always (over the last 14 years) in most places and more common in one,
> Immenhofen in Bavaria.
> Regards,
> Alan
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