House Sparrow

Join the Big Garden Birdwatch 2015   

On the weekend of 24-25 January 2015, the RSPB is asking people all over the country to join the annual Big Garden Birdwatch. The largest wildlfie survey in the world, the Big Garden Birdwatch has been running for over 30 years, and last year nearly 500,000 people took part and over 7 million birds were counted.

To join in, all you need to do is to count birds in your garden or local park for one hour on 24 or 25 January.
Record the highest number of each species that you see at one time and send in the results to the RSPB. You can submit your counts online or send them in on paper. See the RSPB website for full details of how to take part.

Taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch really helps conservation. Because of the huge number of gardens and parks where counts take place, the survey is a good way of monitoring populations of common birds across the country. It can therefore help to flag up when a species is in trouble - such as the much publicised decline of the House Sparrow (photo above by Steve Round). Other garden birds in decline include the Greenfinch, Starling and Song Thrush.

So why not help bird conservation, and give the Big Garden Birdwatch a go? Register now.