Silence of the birds
Sep 09, 2020
2 minutes
THE statistics tell the tragedy eloquently enough; since 1970, our farmland birds have declined by 63%. Some have fared worse even than this base figure (). The grey partridge, an avian so delightful taxonomists named it twice, , is down by 92%. There, ‘a leap with a waver in’).
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