In England, they have a nation-wide birdwatching study, to track the numbers of all the bird populations. Do we have anything similar here? If not, we should.

Something I noticed in the article. It points out:

Since 1979 the study has charted the serious decline of the house sparrow, starling and song thrush and the rise of tits and collared doves.

This rather ironic, because the starling is running rampant here in California, and is very successful at pushing native birds out of areas. The problem has become so bad that some naturalists are destroying starling nests just so the native birds can struggle on. Maybe we could trap them, and ship them back to England?

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