[NatureNS] House Sparrows

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 15:52:35 -0500
From: Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca>
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Quoting Dave&Jane Schlosberg <dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca>:

> This talk of house sparrows in rural areas sounds well and good.
> But I will repeat my downtown Dartmouth story:
> house sparrows were abundant here year round 20 years ago and  
> practically non-existent today in any season.
> And I can?t detect that the environment has changed very much.

* this decline in House Sparrows should be teaching us valuable  
lessons about how species fit into ecological communities, but to  
learn this lesson we'd need either an amateur dedicated to it who has  
a well-paying undemanding job, or adequate funding for the study of  
not-at-risk species.

fred.
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