Dutch Dominoe Sparrow Slaughter

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Originally Posted by jinx

It was 23,000 dominoes. But my question is, how is something with the word "common" in its name considered endangered?

when it/they becomes uncommon, but no one's thought to change the name to reflect that.

Apparently sparrows have been dying off in their thousands. We used to see them all over London and suburb gardens when I was a lad, but now you hardly see them at all. Theories for their disappearance range from use of pesticides to being subject to some rare bird illness to predators, etc, etc. But one thig is for certain - there are far, far fewer numbers now of the common sparrow than there used to be...