It says breeding numbers of redshanks have fallen by 93 per cent and curlews by 60 per cent.
But I was reading somewhere that, between natural predation and petrochemical spills and whatever, we need to, like, quadruple our breeding numbers for species survival.
Its breeding numbers total 13 to 21 million birds, perhaps more, with 4.0 to 8.4 million in western North America and 1.2 million in eastern North America.
In the south of England and the Midlands, breeding numbers are decreasing, though they are holding out well and even increasing in parts of northern England and Scotland.
Since 1982, the UK's Seabird Population Indicator – based on breeding numbers for 13 species of seabird from a handful of colonies – has declined by 22%, with most of this decline taking place over the last 10 years.
State gaming revenues have helped fuel improvements to purses (up 5percentt from 2013 to 2014) and breeding numbers (2.1percentt of the U.S. foal crop in 2013 compared to 1.7percentt in 2012).
Its highest breeding numbers are around south-central Manitoba, northern California-southern Oregon, and the Gulf Coast.
Richard Gregory, the RSPB's head of monitoring, said that sparrows and starlings were on the red list as their breeding numbers were dropping dramatically and no one knew why.
The fish-eating bird with long, angled wings has been on an Amber list of species for conservation as it is in historical decline due to illegal killing, and low breeding numbers.
The exact number of males and the effective breeding numbers are not available.
