The Daily Telegraph reports the willow tit is the fastest-declining  resident bird in the country, and one of the lowest in number, and the numbers have been in sharp freefall because their preferred habitat, shrubland, has been destroyed because of an obsession with neatness…. Government quango Natural England is also planning to compel local authorities to create more ‘untidy’ habitats for creatures including the Willow tit. 

Willow tit photo by yrjö jyske under creative commons.