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Eye on the sparrow
• PROFESSOR JL Cloudsley-Thompson is right about the decline in bird populations in Islington (Garden savagery, March 16).
Loss of nesting habitats, dry summers, declining natural food supplies and domestic cats are all credited with the recent fall in their numbers.
In response to this, the council has been working hard with the community to produce its biodiversity action plan, which sets out a wide range of actions to improve habitats and to target a number of the most threatened species, including the house sparrow.
As well as making your garden more wildlife friendly we are encouraging residents to join in events like the free courses for children in bird box construction we are running at Spa Fields, Finsbury, on Monday and at Quaker Gardens, Islington, on June 16.
Across the borough, March sees several community gardening and bulb-planting events in our parks.
This time next year there will be even more flowers and therefore more of the insects essential to the diet of young birds.
For more information about these and other nature conservation events this spring and summer, contact Islington Ecology Centre on 020 7354 5162.
BOB GILBERT
Assistant director, Greenspace and Leisure
Islington Council
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