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We need to take our feathered friends under our wing – before it’s too late | Alison Phillips

My resident blue tit is grumpy, and with avian numbers decreasing at an alarming rate who can blame him?Brian sits, puffed up with his own importance, glowering at me through the kitchen window. He wants to come in and occasionally lunges at the window to make his point. I’m not even sure what he is grumpy about – it’s a great week for Brian. Because blue tit sightings (sorry, did I mention Brian is a blue tit, or Cyanistes caeruleus as he’d put it on his LinkedIn?) in gardens were up almost 10% on the previous year in the RSPB 2024 Big Garden Birdwatch. Meanwhile, Cosmopolitan magazine insists sky blue is the “must-have hue” for spring.Maybe Brian is crotchety because, despite his beauty and soprano trill, he remains in the No 2 slot of most-spotted birds, another year trailing to the frankly rather drab house sparrow. Or maybe he’s in a flap because all media attention has focused on the collapse in starling numbers – the lowest since counting began in 1979. Continue reading...

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