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Rethinking bird feeding

01 January 2022 Comments BB eye ...

Letter

01 July 2017 Comments Letters ...

Thriving Willow Tits in a post-industrial landscape

01 April 2017 Comments Main paper Geoff Carr and Jeff LunnAbstract The decline of the Willow Tit Poecile montana in the UK has made it a conservation priority species.We present evidence that in some areas of the UK there has been an incr...

Letters

01 September 2015 Comments Letters ...

The effects of avian nest predation and competition on the Willow Tit in Britain

01 January 2015 Comments Short paper Abstract ...

The decline of the Willow Tit in Britain

13 March 2014 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Numbers of the British Willow Tit Poecile montanus kleinschmidti have decreased dramatically in recent decades.This paper outlines the three main hypotheses for the decline – increased competition, increased predation and changes ...

Letters

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Letters

01 February 2010 Comments Letters The recent paper by Richard Broughton (Brit. Birds 102: 604-616) summarised a welcome analysis of the relative importance of the various criteria used to separate Willow Poecile montana and Marsh Tits P. palustris. We consider, however, that the con- clus...

Separation of Willow Tit and Marsh Tit in Britain: a review

16 November 2009 Comments Main paper These sound files accompany a paper on the separation of Willow and Marsh Tits, published in BB in November 2009: ...

Conservation research news

01 February 2004 Comments News and comment The conflict between raptor conservation and the maintenance of high densities of grouse for shooting interests has often led to the suggestion that illegal use of poisoned baits to control predators is more likely to occur on grouse moors than in othe...