In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

In article ,
Jane Ransom writes:
| In article , Nutter
| writes
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| Latest thoughts are that there's some chemical in petrol that acts like an
| insecticide, killing off the sparrows' food supply.
|
| Hang on a minute.
| They feed mainly on grain and weed seeds and, in built up areas, almost
| entirely on bread and scraps supplied by heumingbeens!!!!!!!!!

Most of the UK is repeatedly covered with a thin layer of petrol
residues. Yes, really. I suspect that we would have noticed the
effect in other ways, though.


Can you please tell me what is the dirty-green, finch-type bird with a
narrow yellow stripe on its wing and a beak like a Roman nose? We have
them in our garden and the sparrows are extremely rude to them. TIA
--
June Hughes