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A national survey has recorded an encouraging rise in small bird populations in the UK.
In January, over 600,000 people took part in the Big Garden Birdwatch run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
The results, published this week, show a promising increase in garden bird populations since last year.
Over 10.2 million birds were counted. Goldcrest sightings doubled, while long-tailed tits rose by a third.
The annual survey, now in its 32nd year, was held on Saturday 29 January.
The survey asked people to take to their gardens and public open spaces to count the number of birds during a given hour.
British garden birds are bouncing back
Seeded on Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:05 AM EDT
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Good news for a change. And bless the British. No matter what other mayhem is going on in the world, you can count on them to care about what's happening in nature as well. A few days after 9/11 I read a story on a back page of the London Times about a rare species of bat that had been sighted in one of the Channel islands, where it had been believed to be extinct. And I thought, "Well, there'll always be an England, thank goodness."
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