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Even the canny and adaptable house sparrow has its limits. In Ben Freeman’s home city, Seattle, the 2014 Christmas Bird Count totaled just 225 house sparrows within the city limits. “That’s the lowest total ever,” says Freeman, “and one piece of evidence that house sparrows may be declining.” Indeed, around the globe the bird is experiencing rapid and massive declines—in North America, Australia, and India, but especially in some towns and cities across Europe.
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I highlighted this too. Except more . . . the part about the sparrow being (indicating as) the new canary in a coal mine (Earth).
The Genius of Birds
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