Non-native birds breeding in the UK in 2002

This is the seventh annual report by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel into the breeding of rarer non-native species in the UK, and covers the year 2002. Almost 300 species of non-native birds have been reported in the wild in Britain and about one-sixth of these have bred in the wild (Holmes et al. 1998; BOURC 2004). Since 1996, the Panel has monitored the establishment and spread of populations of t...