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tortdad

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Ahh I just read up on it. It was estimated that each bird was eating roughly 4lb of grain per year depleting crops.

The problem was that the birds ate more than grains, the ate lots of bugs.

The campaign worked and the sparrows were almost extinct but with out a natural predator the insects overpopulated and the natural balance was all messed up. Locusts eat up more crops than the birds did and total crop yields decrease without the birds around instead on increased.
 

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Ahh I just read up on it. It was estimated that each bird was eating roughly 4lb of grain per year depleting crops.

The problem was that the birds ate more than grains, the ate lots of bugs.

The campaign worked and the sparrows were almost extinct but with out a natural predator the insects overpopulated and the natural balance was all messed up. Locusts eat up more crops than the birds did and total crop yields decrease without the birds around instead on increased.
Fair enough, extra points.
 

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