Woodland Birds In Trouble Across Europe - Some Species #s Down 25% In 20 Years - ANI

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London, Dec 2 (ANI): An extensive study has revealed that popular species of birds such as the nightingale, the lesser spotted woodpecker, the wryneck, and woodland birds are vanishing in Britain. According to the study of bird populations across 20 European countries, the species have dwindled almost to the point where they would be classed as endangered.

The study showed that some woodland bird numbers had fallen by up to 20 per cent in the last 20 years. A separate study suggested that the condition could be even worse in Britain, with populations declining by more than 25 per cent.

According to the experts, changes in the management and type of woodland, combined with warming temperatures from climate change, have made it harder for many forest birds to find food and nesting sites. Researchers found 11 species that had reached critical levels and are in need of urgent conservation.

Richard Gregory of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, who chairs the European Bird Census Council, warned that species such as the lesser spotted woodpecker and the wryneck were no longer breeding in the UK. "These birds are in danger right across Europe. They are not just disappearing here in the UK, but on a much wider scale," the Telegraph quoted him, as saying.

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. I thought they already

ate all their tweety-birds.

[ben_meyers]

2. Silent Spring, again? n/t