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Virus continues to threaten favourite UK garden bird (www.bto.org)

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One of the UK’s most popular songbirds is in rapid decline, and garden owners are being encouraged to share their sightings with researchers.

When Paul McCartney recorded the famous Beatles song ‘Blackbird’ at Abbey Road Studios, the distinctive sound of a singing male Blackbird was added to the final mix, courtesy of the studio’s vast collection of sound effects. This particular Blackbird had been recorded three years earlier, in a west London garden. Sadly, that most familiar of sounds has become an increasingly scarce one in and around the English capital’s green spaces in recent years, following worrying declines.

In 2024, The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) launched a pioneering survey to try to map this rate of decline in London’s Blackbirds, and to see whether similar population slumps were occurring elsewhere across the UK.

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

We used to have a few local blackbirds visiting our garden regularly, then our neighbour cut down the large tree in their garden and now I very rarely see them. It also pushed the sparrow and robin population away so I barely ever see them either.

Fucking people -_-