Urban areas crowded with ‘nuisance’ birds

LONDON: If you are living in a crowded urban area, there are more chances for you to see birds that cause a nuisance than those that make us genuinely happy. People in crowded urban areas — especially poor areas — see fewer songbirds such as tits and finches, and more potential “nuisance” birds, such as pigeons, magpies and gulls, showed the results based on extensive bird surveys across three towns in England. “For most people, birds provide their most common encounter with wild animals,”said one of the researchers Daniel Cox of University of Exeter in Britain.