BBCNEWS BBC News August 28, 2021 10:25:00
A welcome dose of nature on our doorsteps, window ledges and in our gardens. in the uk we spent more than £250 million every year on food for our feathered friends. but there's a limited number of familiar resident species that eat the thousands of tonnes of peanuts, seeds and suet that we put out for the birds, and scientists now say this constant supply of supplementary food could have boosted the population of those species at the expense of others. an ongoing rise in the population of great tits and blue tits, for example, could be costly for some of the birds that we don't often see in o...