Just over 135,000 people spotted 1,961,033 birds in the national bird count this weekend. ‘Blackbirds uses to be spotted in nine out of 10 gardens but in 2017 and 2018 that went down to two thirds of gardens,’ urban bird expert Hanne Tersmette told the AD. Although the news for blackbirds is slightly better, the overall urban bird population is …
The house sparrow was again the most counted bird in Dutch gardens during the national bird counting weekend. The bird has been on the top of the list for years in the annual National Garden Bird Count, an event organized by Vogelbescherming Nederlands. Garden bird counters had to count how many birds they saw for half an hour in their …
