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Songbird numbers have crashed
In only one generation:
Farmland birds have halved
Some have fared worse:
Skylark down 51%
Skylark down 51%Starling down 69% 
Corn Bunting down 90%
Corn Bunting down 90%Tree Sparrow down 89% 
statistics source: Natural England
WHY?
Habitat loss and modern farming get the blame
...BUT
Habitat is improving...
Broadleaved woodland is up a third since 1947
40,000 km of hedges have been planted since 1990
70% of farms are now in Agri-environment schemes - farmers are paid to look after wildlife
Songbird numbers should have recovered
but they haven't
WHY NOT?
SongBird Survival says:
Rising levels of uncontrolled predation are ignored
Existing research is out-of-date and flawed
New High-Quality research is urgently needed
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