[Mikeb85]

I live downtown in a large Canadian city and there's magpies, pigeons, sparrows, ducks, geese, and the occasional hawk or falcon. That's just downtown. Go to one of our parks and there's more variety. An hour outside of town, even more. No, birds don't seem particularly scarce here.

[devb]

Those are all birds that have been able to adapt very well to urban life. For each one of those, there are scores that haven't been able to do so.