Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Bad winter expected for tits in UK

If you're expecting to see the usual crowds of blue tits in your garden this winter, you could be in for a disappointment. Wildlife experts say millions of the young birds starved or drowned during the storms and floods of May, June and July. Numbers of great tits, whitethroats and reed warblers are also dramatically down after their worst breeding season in a generation, it is claimed.

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