SPARROWS LIKE THAN DINOSAURS AND MAMOUTS COULD APPEAR IN THE
LIST OF EXTINCT ANIMALS
TO PROMOTE KNOWLEDGE AND DEFENCE OF THIS SPECIES THE
20TH OF MARCH
IS WORLD SPARROW’S DAY .
IS WORLD SPARROW’S DAY .
female male
SPARROWS ARE A BIODIVERSITY INDICATOR IN OUR
ENVIROMENT. GUARANTEEING THEIR EXISTENCE WOULD ENSURE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE.
IN SPAIN THIS SPARROW POPULATION HAS
DECREASED OVER THE LAST DECADE TO ABOUT 14 % IN RURAL AREAS AND IN SOME EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES THE DECLINE IS SO PRONOUNCED THAT IT HAS DISAPPEARED FROM CITIES LIKE
LONDON.
PRINCIPAL
CAUSES OF THEIR EXTINTION:
-CLEANING UP CITIES AND PARKS.
- COMPETITION AGAIST OTHER BIRDS FOR FOOD.
-INCREASING POPULATION
OF PIGEONS AND MAGPIES.
-THE INCREASING POPULATION OF STRAY CATS.
- MODERN BUILDINGS
AND
THE ELIMINATION OF OLD TREES.
Our country:
Other countries:
-THE USE OF INSECTICIDES DEPRIVES THE MAINSTAY
OF INSECTS’ OFFSPRING. PESTICIDES END UP WITH WEEDS WHERE SPARROWS CAN FIND
GRASSHOPPERS AND COLEOPTERA.
DATA SHEET
COMMON NAME: Sparrow SCIENTIFIC
NAME: Passer domesticus
CLASS: Birds GENRE:Passer ORDER:Passeriformes FAMILY:Passeridae
Our country:
- Sparrow
are disappearing from Madrid. We lose fourteen thousand sparrows per year.
- Between
Madrid, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla y León and Valencia the decreasing is
almost 400,000 sparrows per year.
- The
extinction of sparrows in La Rioja is caused by excessive use of mobile phones
and the placement of antennas.
- In Galicia the
population of sparrows decreased by 25 percent over the past three decades, that
means that the process of extinction is accelerating.
- In
Asturias, there are many sparrows.
- Sparrow
population suffer a great decreasement in Andalucía, about 14 percent.
- The Mavea
Ornithology Group published yesterday a new census of birds of Avilés in which
they alert of the gradual disappearance of the sparrow. It is observed that in
the twenty last years the population has been reduced by 19 percent.
- In Catalonia the population of sparrows has decreased
between 2002 and 2010 by 2 percent.
- Sparrows arrive at Baleares by ship, because it is not
their origin place.
- In Basque
country the sparrow population has declined by 80 percent in recent decades. It
is becoming much more difficult to see a sparrow.
- Navarra has
allowed the hunting of sparrows because the Environment Department consider
them as a plague.
Other countries:
- United
Kingdom sparrow population decreased by 68% in the last decades. In London they
have disappeared.
- In Italy
there are many sparrows and people kill them.
- In
Berlin this bird has almost disappeared.
- In Prague they have practically disappeared.
- In China they
were nearly extinct by the end of the 50s because the campaign of extermination
of the four pests (sparrows, flies, mosquitoes and mice) to minimize the lost
of grain to feed more people. North Korea was about to follow in his footsteps,
but fortunately they waited to see the consequences of China which suffered a
severe plague of locusts having left their fields of crops unprotected, they
also suffered a famine and were forced to ask for help to Russia. Russians sent
them a secret cargo of sparrows so they could repopulate their fields.