Comments on: Birds Love Rich British People

By: FLU-BIRD

FLU-BIRD — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:41:25 +0000

Becuase in theor areas they can indeed afford to ffed the birds and have plenty of places for them to shelter and nest

By: Shaun Rosenberg

Shaun Rosenberg — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:45:00 +0000

That is funny, I’m suprised the birds do not build nests near the food. You would think they would want to live near the food.

By: JONTILLMAN.COM

JONTILLMAN.COM — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:00:59 +0000

[...] the class of a neighborhood was to count the children playing outside. Well, it seems you can also count the birds. A recent study found that the population of birds in urban areas of Britain is directly related to [...]

By: Tyler Petroelje

Tyler Petroelje — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:14:10 +0000

Yea, So this Study Was Done By Whom? Did they Go to a University? — Honestly This is one of the worst examples of observational ecology I have Seen.
I mean Seriously If their was a wealthy urban sky rise would you see more Birds around the building because it is wealthy or would you see more birds on a local rural farm even though it’s “poor”? The correlation lies in the landscape and feed available not the wealth.
Kinda a bad assumption to say that the blue collar workers of your society don’t care about birds.

By: Tim Fox

Tim Fox — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:53:40 +0000

Absolute Vengeance, you totally suck, as does your band. Please grow some pubic hairs.

By: Absolute Vengeance

Absolute Vengeance — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:39:32 +0000

“birds such as blue tits, coal tits, and great tits, all of whom are particularly attracted”

AHAHAHAHAHAHA TITS – stumble upon really sux today

ALL HAIL ABSOLUTE VENGEANCE

By: Anima

Anima — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:18:30 +0000

ahaha…

…tits.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:08:35 +0000

I also heard along with the blue tit and coal tit
the elusive fake tit are extremly attracted to the rich

im sorry
i had to

By: yeah, really dumb

yeah, really dumb — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:41:12 +0000

I second that – how could anyone draw any “scientific” conclusions from this information? Two out of the four paragraphs in this article make it sound so juvenile that even a teenager could pick out the glaring weaknesses.
“Rich people can afford to spend their money on things like feeding birds. Wealthy Brits are far more likely to care about the birds and to feed them. Poorer people are more concerned with paying rent and buying groceries than installing bird feeders.”
Who are you to say what “poorer people” do and do not care about, and how is that scientifically relevant to this “study”? So rich people buy feeders. That doesn’t make birds attracted to rich people’s areas. Birds are attracted to food. I guarantee you’ll find large populations of crows and other scavengers in poor areas, where they might be taking advantage of excess garbage left outside.
And even worse: ” Interestingly enough, the study found that, although the population of birds is affected by the presence of bird feeders, the range of birds is not. You could stick bird feeders in a straight line from the tropics to the freezing latitudes and the birds will still live in the same places they always have.”
Hmm, that’s curious – rich neighborhoods with an abundance of free sunflower seeds are not motivation enough for a bird to ignore its entire instinctual motivation to stay in a particular climate? Damn, I was hoping to put some exotic fruit in my yard in the hopes of attracting a couple parrots…despite the foot of snow in my yard. Oh well.

By: John

John — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:57:28 +0000

We use to feed the birds at our home in Dallas as I was growing up. We had a continuous population of different birds year round. Our neighbor always marveled at how many birds were always around our back yard. One day a light apparently went off in his head whereby he asked if we fed them. Feeding is the secret to having lots of birds around. It is really a good thing to do. (I always wanted them to develop a feed that immediately killed English sparrows while not harming other birds though!)