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    backyard bees gone?

    @ Poledark I suspect you live in a fairly low EMR environment, since you clearly live in the countryside. Many parts of the UK are still "underserved" by wireless communications, unlike where I live. Try going to a high-EMR environment and then see how many bees and sparrows you get.
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    backyard bees gone?

    In the two years since I began posting on BF, the world has lost a great many bees, insects and birds, among other forms of life. In 2017, we had lost approximately 75% of the world's honeybees, and now we have lost 90%. Our food security is at risk, as is life itself, if 5G kills the insects...
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    backyard bees gone?

    Electromagnetic radiation from cell towers, wi-fi and devices is killing not only the bees but everything else as well. And it is going to get much, much worse with 5G. See my post asking for people to sign the appeal for a moratorium on 5G.
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    Loss of invertebrates

    The insect decline worldwide is very serious, and Buglife, UK has a lot of information about this on their website--the rates of decline and loss of biodiversity is truly shocking. One reason for the decline is electromagnetic radiation from cell towers. Buglife started a topic with the EU...
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    Ecological impact of linking the Danube to the Aegean?

    As reported in ekathimerini today (Aug 28, 2017), the Chinese want to link the Danube to the Aegean Sea at the Axios River Delta (one of Greece's important bird areas). The article is at...
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    Warbler,Northern Greece

    The reason I suggested chiffchaff is that there aren't, as far as I know, any acros that live in/pass through Greece which have black legs and a black bill. So can anybody actually identify this bird?
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    Warbler,Northern Greece

    It might help to work out what this bird is if you told us where you found it. The background of the photo doesn't look like reeds and I still think it looks more like a chiffchaff than a reed warbler.
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    Lesvos Bird Reports 2017

    Hi, Mick, Thanks for your reply. Is there any way to contact these people that does not involve Facebook? A telephone number, a different site? Thanks
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    Lesvos Bird Reports 2017

    Question for you. I live on Samos, not that far away, and we have been seeing a huge decline in bird numbers for the past 2-3 years. Admittedly Lesvos has always been better for birdlife than here, but the situation here has deteriorated sharply. For example we used to have flocks of...
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    Warbler,Northern Greece

    Not a reed warbler. Looks like a chiffchaff to me though the eye-stripe is not clearly defined in this photo. Not many warblers have black beak and legs. I'd go with chiffchaff.
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    Are bird numbers falling in Greece?

    To KB57, You are right, and I didn't cite the article specifically to prove that 4G is causing birds to disappear. But what it does show is that man-made frequencies are disrupting birds' ability to migrate. If you are interested in this topic, look at www.emf-portal.org and do a search, e.g...
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    Are bird numbers falling in Greece?

    Hi, Henning, Please see my reply to Jos, above. I can certainly change the sentence we are arguing about and take out the words "As a result". In any case I think more birds at Kerkini primarily results from the fact that Kerkini is still 3G, and I think I made clear that even so, I feel that...
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    Are bird numbers falling in Greece?

    Hi, Jos, Unfortunately you are the only person on Birdforum to come up with any actual figures, so I haven't got much basis for comparison one way or another. I think I told you I heard from someone in Ireland on another forum--he's seen bird numbers fall, and populations change, since his...
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    Are bird numbers falling in Greece?

    Hi, Henning, I don't think it really matters if signal strength is not uniform across an area--I think the point is that birds do not do well in an EMR environment. If I change the sentence you object to it will not change my overall conclusion: less signal, more birds; strong signal, fewer...
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    Are bird numbers falling in Greece?

    Hi, Jos, Thanks for the info. Not sure what to make of it as much research has been done to show that EMR disrupts migration and causes a great many other problems for birds. This is what I am seeing here, and I have heard from a ringer in Ireland who is observing a similar situation to mine...
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