Telegraph: Common birds such as sparrows, starlings and skylarks are suffering "alarming" declines in their numbers, a new study has warned.
Figures from bird monitoring schemes suggest that populations of the most widespread species have dropped by around 421 million across Europe since 1980.
Conservation experts blame increasing levels of fragmentation and urbanisation of the countryside for the huge losses.
They warn that although the 144 species studied in the new report are considered to be common,...