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Nightingale heading to extinction

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Reports www.telegraph.co.uk.

Populations of the bird, which has been an inspiration for generations of poets and romantics, have crashed by more than 90 per cent in the last 40 years. According to a study by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), the species is on course to vanish completely from the UK.

The findings mean the bird will be upgraded to "red status" - signifying the highest possible degree of conservation concern.

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