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Garden birds suffer worst breeding season http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1236739464
... Only the reed warbler managed a slightly better than average breeding season.
And the blackbird, great tit and song thrush saw their productivity drop by more than 30 per cent, with the thrushes witnessing a fall of 38 per cent in the number of young they managed to rear.
The CES monitoring is undertaken using mist nets to catch and ring the birds for periods during the breeding season at 120 sites in the UK and Ireland, comparing the number of juvenile birds with adults to analyse breeding success.
Last year's problems followed on from 2007's low productivity, with seven species suffering their worst breeding season to date in the wake of the wettest May to July on record.
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katydidnt says: "Maybe if we stop watching them so much they'll stop feeling so self-conscious about breeding!"
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