Starlings vanish from our gardens as numbers fall by 80% in 25 years

With a glossy green-purple plume and a noisy song, the starling is a familiar visitor to our gardens.

But figures show a dramatic decline in their numbers of almost 80 per cent over the past 25 years.

The RSPB has now launched a study into the decline, believing a possible cause to be changes in soil affecting the insects they feed on. 

In the first RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch survey in 1979, the average number of starlings seen in gardens was 15.      Read Here