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Sure my sparrows are my own,

Let ye then my birds alone,

Come poor birds from foes severe

Fearless come, you're welcome here;

My heart yearns at fate like yours,

A sparrow's life's as sweet as ours.

John Clare 1793-1864

The Project

For the past 30 years the Herts Bird Club, a branch of the Herts Natural History Society, has been supporting and protecting the last remaining breeding colony of Tree Sparrows in Hertfordshire at Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits near St Albans.

Tree Sparrows

Tree Sparrows Passer montanus are the scarcer cousins of the more familiar House Sparrows Passer domesticus and were once widespread and common in the UK. However, since the 1970s Tree Sparrow populations crashed, dropping by 96%...

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