How can we save the country’s birds? | Letters

We may be only a few years from hearing the purring of the last turtle dove in the UK, writes Jonathan WallaceThank you Jonathan Franzen (Why do birds matter? Where shall I begin? 24 March) for your wonderful paean to birds. They enrich our lives yet we continue to push birds towards oblivion. We may be only a few years from hearing the purring of the last turtle dove in this country, for example. There are many ways in which we harm bird populations, some easier to address than others. The outr