WHERE HAVE ALL THE SPARROWS GONE?
In comparatively short number of years population of songbirds in this country has been drastically dimished. We as a society must resolve to improve this impoverished state. The existance of birds, their flight, their dancing, their song, their meaning and their mystery plays important part to our lives.
From 1975 to 1998 house sparrows declined accross the UK by 58%. In some cities the decline is as high as 90%.
Sparrows are on the verge of dissapearing from the centres of London and Glasgow.
Tree sparrows declined by 87% accross the UK between 1970 and 1998.
In 1990 there was an average of eight house sparrows per garden, today there is only four.
