Telegraph: Sir David, who is presenting a short bird song segment on Radio 4 throughout May, said Britain has been "losing countryside for longer than anyone else', since businesses turned from agriculture to industry.
Saying he feared the public tended to take the countryside for granted, he added he believed the popularity of bird song could be a result of hundreds of years of building.
"If it's around you all the time, you tend to take it for granted,' he told the Radio Times. "But I think British...