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Birds featured in The Twelve Days of Christmas song are dying out as their population halves (worth the click for pics)

 
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Birds featured in The Twelve Days of Christmas song are dying out as their population halves (worth the click for pics)
No swans a swimming, no geese a laying, no turtle doves... and no partridge in a pear tree


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ICONIC wild birds featured in traditional song The Twelve Days of Christmas are dying out.

Populations of partridges and turtle doves, given away by “my true love” on the first and second days, have halved since the 1970s.

There are also fears for some species of geese-a- laying and swans-a-swimming, according to an Environment Department report on the first day of Advent.

Labour MP Kate Hoey, who sits on Parliament’s all-party Game and Wildlife Conservation Group, warned the issue was “a sign of wildlife in peril”.

She said: “The Government must take action to rescue these birds from being reduced to nothing more than memories of a classic seasonal song.”

The report shows six out of ten turtle doves and three out of ten grey partridges have been lost in five years.




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Christmas is dying.
It has been hijacked and bastardized.
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I know it feels sad and lonely.
Like seeing the bob cats being killed, there are not that many here anymore.
There used to be pheasants, mink, quail and non-venomous pretty snakes all around where we lived, no so any more.

The fields would be so exciting when the lightening bugs would come up from them into the night, we would runs through the fields in sleep clothing among them.
We do not see many like now.

It was such a happy exciting twinkle feast with them so plentiful, the night become pretty with them.

We see our families lessening from what size and amounts they used to be and you have the feeling we are dying out, we are really dying out.

Maybe it is something we have no control over and in that sense it makes it even more sad and worrisome, worrisome about the one child you have being felt to die alone with nobody to call his own.

Maybe it is for the best for us and then maybe it is not.
Wish instead things were fruitful and stable.
The most precious things are the simple things in life, always present in the simplest of minds.
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I know it feels sad and lonely.
Like seeing the bob cats being killed, there are not that many here anymore.
There used to be pheasants, mink, quail and non-venomous pretty snakes all around where we lived, no so any more.

The fields would be so exciting when the lightening bugs would come up from them into the night, we would runs through the fields in sleep clothing among them.
We do not see many like now.

It was such a happy exciting twinkle feast with them so plentiful, the night become pretty with them.

We see our families lessening from what size and amounts they used to be and you have the feeling we are dying out, we are really dying out.

Maybe it is something we have no control over and in that sense it makes it even more sad and worrisome, worrisome about the one child you have being felt to die alone with nobody to call his own.

Maybe it is for the best for us and then maybe it is not.
Wish instead things were fruitful and stable.
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I hear ya WM. hugs It is so sad. When my backyard critters are all gone, I'm gone too.
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TONS of Canada geese here

TONS of blue jays, doves, cardinals, crows, etc etc etc etc

the only bird species I see being decimated is


the starling.

have posted a thread on its demise, which as the 'murmurating flock' bird is quite a loss.

Starling populations are down almost worldwide. No huge flocks here on the Delmarva Peninsula for maybe seven years.

I credit it to cell tower interference with their murmurating ability. As the only species I know of that does that, they are the only bird in huge decline.

the number of Jays this year is off the charts high. I saw a cedar waxwing and a few other unusual birds for the first time this summer.

awaiting the return of the bluebirds...... they were displaced by the starlings, who were imported to the New World as part of a Shakespeare production in Central Park in New York City.

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TONS of Canada geese here

TONS of blue jays, doves, cardinals, crows, etc etc etc etc

the only bird species I see being decimated is


the starling.

have posted a thread on its demise, which as the 'murmurating flock' bird is quite a loss.

Starling populations are down almost worldwide. No huge flocks here on the Delmarva Peninsula for maybe seven years.

I credit it to cell tower interference with their murmurating ability. As the only species I know of that does that, they are the only bird in huge decline.

the number of Jays this year is off the charts high. I saw a cedar waxwing and a few other unusual birds for the first time this summer.

awaiting the return of the bluebirds...... they were displaced by the starlings, who were imported to the New World as part of a Shakespeare production in Central Park in New York City.
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I can tell you with 100% certainty that the USDA and FAA work together to eradicate Starlings.
Their flocking n such vast groups is a detriment for aircraft.

They poison them, shoot... anything to KILL them. Not even drive them away.
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Re: Birds featured in The Twelve Days of Christmas song are dying out as their population halves (worth the click for pics)
TONS of Canada geese here

TONS of blue jays, doves, cardinals, crows, etc etc etc etc

the only bird species I see being decimated is


the starling.

have posted a thread on its demise, which as the 'murmurating flock' bird is quite a loss.

Starling populations are down almost worldwide. No huge flocks here on the Delmarva Peninsula for maybe seven years.

I credit it to cell tower interference with their murmurating ability. As the only species I know of that does that, they are the only bird in huge decline.

the number of Jays this year is off the charts high. I saw a cedar waxwing and a few other unusual birds for the first time this summer.

awaiting the return of the bluebirds...... they were displaced by the starlings, who were imported to the New World as part of a Shakespeare production in Central Park in New York City.
 Quoting: beeches


I can tell you with 100% certainty that the USDA and FAA work together to eradicate Starlings.
Their flocking n such vast groups is a detriment for aircraft.

They poison them, shoot... anything to KILL them. Not even drive them away.
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Large numbers of Canada and Snow geese here.
Deer populations very high.
Too many coyotes, as usual
Lots of crows, hawks, doves, and eagles.
We have a trumpeter swan restoration project going on for past 20 years with about 100 swans now nesting in the state.
In the 1930's there were less than 100 trumpeter swans left alive. There are now thousands, with some limited hunting.
Swans are twice the size of giant Canada geese, and 3 times the size of snow geese.

That said, GMOs and glyophosate and atrazine, etc are probably affecting all wildlife.

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