Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:00:12 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Sherry Peruzzi Subject: Re: Passer domesticus In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If they don't have enough, and we have too many, the solution is obvious: We should collect as many of the darned things as we can and ship them to Britain. Donate your Passer domesticuses to the cause! Send some House Sparrows to a needy twitcher today! Sherry Gail Mackiernan wrote: >But the House Sparrow is in serious trouble in the U.K. with a rapidly >declining population, and there are a number of studies trying to find >out why. Apparently it is a reproductive or nest failure and may be >related to lack of food during critical stages in rearing the chicks. >Since this could have implications for rarer species. British >ornithologists are watching this trend carefully. > >Passer domesticus is, of course, native to Great Britain. > >Gail Mackiernan >Silver Spring, MD > > > > > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================