Reviews

01 December 2006 Comments Reviews BIRDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Edited by Anders P. Møller, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold. Academic Press, London, 2006. 251 pages; figures, tables. ISBN 0-12-373614-5. Paperback, £28.99. This book contains a series of papers published in 2004 as a vo...
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Conservation research news

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment Over 1,200 bird species in the world are currently threatened with extinction, of which 179 are classified as `Critically Endangered\' � the highest threat category. In the face of these statistics it is difficult to remain optimistic, b...
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News and Comment

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment The temporary ban on importing wild birds into the EU has lasted more than a year, but it's up for review later this month. The ban was imposed in October 2005 to contain the spread of H5N1 `avian flu' following the deaths of infected birds at a quaran...
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Reviews

01 October 1981 Comments Reviews The Evolutionary Ecology of Animal Migration. By R. R. Baker. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1978. xvii + 1012 pages; numerous blackand-white photographs and line-drawings. £35.00.  Reviewers as a class must surely agree with Callimachus...
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Recent reports

01 October 1981 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records Dates in this report refer to July unless otherwise stated. The weather during the first six days was unsettled as eastward moving weather-fronts crossed the country. Rather warmer air from...
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News and comment

01 October 1981 Comments News and comment North Sea Bird Watch The second annual report of the North Sea Bird Watch, co-ordinated by Dr R. A. F. Cox, has just been published listing the birds recorded at fixed and mobile installations on the Phillips Petroleum Company concessions in 19...
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