The RSPB is calling on households across Britain to rethink how they feed garden birds after new data showed starlings have hit record low numbers for the second year running and greenfinch populations remain far below what they once were.
The figures come from the charity's Big Garden Birdwatch, an annual citizen science survey that has been running since 1979. More than 650,000 people took part this year by spending an hour counting birds in their garden or a nearby green space during the last weekend of January. The results give conservationists one of the clearest pictures available of how common garden birds are faring across the country.
