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Index of Subjects Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems to me that Eastern Bluebird numbers in NB and NS have correspondingly increased/rebounded with the decline of English House Sparrow numbers ? Ron Wilson Somerset NS Sent from my iPad > On Nov 20, 2015, at 5:56 PM, "rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca" <rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > Well Fred, House Sparrows were an invasive species. > Very invasive I might add. And its the old story > they have disappeared - if we could redo the disappearace we might > have a chance at the solution but now it would be folks with wild views > yelling at each other. Do we want that invasive species back? > Enjoy November > Paul > > > On November 20, 2015 at 4:52 PM Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > > Mudpuppy Night - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > > Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ > > study our books - http://pinicola.ca/books/index.htm > > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > > "[The] two fundamental steps of scientific thought - the conjecture > > and refutation of Popper - have little place in the usual conception > > of intelligence. If something is to be dismissed as inadequate, it is > > surely not Darwin [, whose] works manifest the activity of a mind > > seeking for wisdom, a value which conventional philosophy has largely > > abandoned." Ghiselen, 1969. Triumph of the Darwinian Method, p 237. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >
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