House Sparrow - Passer Domesticus
I was having my lunch on Sir Baniyas and thought I have to post this up some time. I see this bird everywhere in the Gulf. It was the bird theme music of growing up in the suburbs. The cheep cheep echoing off the garages and tarmac of an estate.
In the UK there has been a 99% reduction in some urban populations of sparrow. Additives in petrol, pesticides ? Nobody quite knows why - they are not a bird that finds it hard to "have a go" - so why this catostrophic decline in the UK. One writer has called it the miner's canary of urban Britain. Food for thought.
House Sparrow - Passer Domesticus
Sir Baniyas - UAE
13 February 2012
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