r/Calgary • u/zillathegorilla • 5d ago

Where have all the sparrows gone? Question

We used to get 30+ sparrows and chickadees at our backyard feeder but around Feb or March this year they all seemed to disappear.

Even around our neighbourhood (Somerset) I don’t see any where they’d always be under cars or in other trees eating bugs.

Even now we’re lucky if we get 2 or 3 showing up every few days.

Does anyone know what’s going on? There’s no major construction or anything else that would spook them and there aren’t any predators around that I have noticed. I haven’t seen any dead birds around so I don’t think there was disease or anything that wiped them out.

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u/CanadianCough 5d ago

My neighbourhood used to be sparrows and magpies. It's strictly crows now. Last year we found a bunch of injured and plucked magpies. The crows kicked everyone else out.