Signs of a house sparrow comeback in the UK after decades of decline

Populations starting to stabilise but much still needs to be done to reverse loss of 30m that almost led to species vanishingHow do you lose 30 million house sparrows? That is the number that have vanished from Britain’s hedgerows, fields and gardens during my lifetime.I can recall clouds of sparrows rising up in the fields behind my suburban childhood home on the edge of London. But by the late 1990s they had simply vanished from many of their former haunts. Continue reading...