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Georgie the Magpie says "It has been a strange old spring this year and I must say that I am a little worried... Some of my old bird friends from a long time ago have not returned from migration yet this year"

This is because the weather has been very funny and the seasons seem to have changed. Because of this most of them have stayed at home in hotter places like Africa and Asia .

I asked my good friend Miss Jennifer Pickles to help me out with the Maths and she told me that this year there has been:

59% less Cuckoos
83% less Tree Pipits
22% less Common Sandpipers
60% less Willow Warblers
21% less Garden Warblers
82% less Turtle Doves
76% less Marsh Warblers
84% less Spotted Flycatchers
70% less Yellow Wagtails
15% less Lesser White throats



There are ways that you can help

Try building a bird feeder or house.

Put food out for birds.

Recycle all of your paper and card - birds need lots of woodlands, forests and trees to make homes and start a community. By recycling all of your paper and card it helps sustain forests.

Plant more Trees - Birds love big trees, they are a safe place to live and start a family.

Ask your parents to buy drawing paper, toilet paper and cards that have come from sustainable forests or recycled paper.

Sustainable Forests are forests that have a continuous growth cycle of trees so as the trees are cut down there are more trees growing to replace them.
That's just awful! Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention, we really should try to do something to help restore bird populations.
This is quite alarming, this makes me wonder what is actually happening to them all. I'm worried!
What exactly is happening, are they all going extinct or are they just leaving the areas?
84% less Spotted Flycatchers...

This is just sad. 84% less of anything is just sad.
(07-07-2011 02:31 AM)Chuchu Wrote: [ -> ]84% less Spotted Flycatchers...

This is just sad. 84% less of anything is just sad.

I agree, my fine feathered friends need to stick around. It would be a terrible place without the songs of birds being sung outside!


Georgie
This is just horrible. I'll be sure to try my best to put an effort to do more of all the things you listed. Sad
This is indeed very alarming. Is this still current?
Very disturbing. I don't like when even the birds disappear.
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