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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - During the bird counting campaign of the nature conservation association Nabu, fewer birds were observed in the southwest than in previous years.
According to an initial result of the "Hour of Winter Birds", an average of only 31.6 birds per garden were sighted in Baden-Württemberg.
In the previous year there were still 36.7 birds.
The country is "even ten percent below the national average of 34.3, which is the lowest value since the start of the campaign," said Nabu's bird protection officer, Stefan Bosch, on Wednesday.
The result is very reminiscent of the winter of 2017. "Even back then, there were particularly no typical visitors to the feeding grounds, such as great tit, tail tit, nuthatch, bullfinch and grosbeak," said Bosch.
Both winters remained mild for a long time, which is why many species did not fly south.
The house sparrow was the most frequently sighted in the southwest, with an average of 7.38 of these birds in each garden.
Nabu intends to carry out a final evaluation from the end of January, when all participants have reported their observations.
The "Hour of the Winter Birds" took place from January 8th to 10th.
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In the current corona lockdown, according to Nabu, a particularly large number of nature lovers took part in the campaign.
According to the association, around 17,700 people in Baden-Württemberg observed the birds in parks and gardens - ten percent more than in the previous year, a record.
"The interim result has thus far exceeded the previous record participation from the previous year," said Nabu Federal Managing Director Leif Miller.
Nationwide 175,000 people took part in the observation.
Hour of the winter birds