ICBP news

01 December 1992 Comments Editorials Menderes delta. This June, H R H Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, opened an information centre at the Menderes Delta, one of the most important sites for birds in Turkey. A 13,000-ha wetland at the mouth of the River Menderes on the western coast...
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Announcements

01 September 1991 Comments Editorials Rare Breeding Birds Panel. The work of the Panel has been supported since its inception in 1973 by British Birds, the BTO, the NCC and the RSPB. In April 1991, however, the NCC ceased to exist, its functions being taken over by three separate bodies: E...
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Fieldwork action

01 September 1991 Comments Editorials Are Nightjar numbers still on the way down? The first sign of a decline in numbers of Nightjars Caprimulgus europaeus was in 1952, and, since the BTO Nightjar Survey of 1957-58, the trend has been one of a continuing decrease, especially in the North a...
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