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①The Roman poet Catullus lamented the death of a pet sparrow,
probably a house sparrow or a tree sparrow.In either case, a
present-day Catullus would have ample cause for lamentation.
Both kinds of sparrows are among the many species of birds,
insects and plants that have declined dramatically in Northern
Europe during the past 25 years.
②It is estimated,in the past 20 years,ten million breeding
indivisuals of ten species of farmland birds have disappeared
from the British countryside. The decline in bird numbers in part
reflects the decline of those insects and plant populations upon
which they depend.