Java While Loops Issue(new)

Im having an issue with my program. I want to store the number of birds seen in a while loop and then print the most seen bird when the program is terminated. Im having issues with the if statement. Any help will be appreciated.

import java.util.*; class gardenbird {

public static void main(String[] main)
{
    askbird();
    System.exit(0);
}// END MAIN METHOD



public static void askbird()
{   
    final int sentinel = -1;
    int mostseen = 0; 
    int howmany = 0;


    print("When you want to end the program type in "+sentinel);



    while(howmany != sentinel)
    {   Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
        print("Which bird have you seen?");
        String bird = scanner.nextLine();
        howmany = input("How many where in your garden at once?");

        if(howmany>mostseen)
        {
            howmany = mostseen;
        }
        print("You saw " + howmany+ " " + bird +"\n It was the most common bird in your garden.");
    }



}

public static String print(String message)
{


    System.out.println(message);




    return message;
}

public static int input(String count)
{   
    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
    print(count);
    String number1=scanner.nextLine();

    int number = Integer.parseInt(number1);
    return number;
}

}