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Around 600 million birds lost in 40 years, RSPB study finds

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It is a breathtaking natural phenomenon which happens shortly before dusk.

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Large groups of Starlings gather to sweep and twirl through the sky in formations called murmurations.

But this beautiful sight could disappear because of the dramatic decline in the number of birds.

Intensive agriculture, habitat loss and climate change have all combined to exacerbate the other great crisis of our time - biodiversity loss.

We have exclusive access to a new report by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and BirdLife International showing the scale of the ecological decline we are facing.

About 600 million birds have been lost across Europe since the 1980s, including a large proportion of Starlings.

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