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BB eye: Swansong – a lifetime with sparrows

01 September 2016 Comments Editorials Denis Summers-Smith I began my study of House Sparrows Passer domesticus...

Protocol for censusing urban sparrows

16 May 2011 Comments Main paper Jenny De Laet, Will J. Peach and J. Denis Summers-Smith ...

Letters

01 September 2007 Comments Letters ...

The decline of the House Sparrow: a review

01 September 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The House Sparrow Passer domesticus population in Britain suffered a major decline in the 1920s, particularly in built-up areas, which coincided with the replacement of the horse by the internal combustion engine.The mixed fortun...

Letters

01 June 2003 Comments Letters In October 2000, the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) commissioned a consortium (consisting of the BTO, the RSPB/Oxford University Farmland Bird Group, the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) and WildWings Bird Management) ...

Homes for birds: the use of houses for nesting by birds in the UK

01 November 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A joint survey, by RSPB and the BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme, investigated the use of houses for nesting by four bird species (Common Swift Apus apus, House Martin Delichon urbica, Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris ...

News and Comment

01 September 2002 Comments News and comment The BTO has launched a £100,000 appeal to `Save Our Sparrows'. If you had read that sentence 25 years ago, perhaps even ten years ago, you might have thought that this was the issue of British Birds scheduled to arrive on April 1st, not September 1st....

Letters

01 October 2001 Comments Letters Autumn bird counts have been carried out periodically in Kensington Gardens, London (the third-largest of the Inner London parks, at 115.8 ha), since 1925. ...

Notes

01 April 2001 Comments Notes ...

Notes

01 February 2001 Comments Notes At 17.45 hours on 20th March 1995, at East Hyde on the River Lea, 3.2 km north of Batford, Hertfordshire, I observed an immature Grey Heron Ardea cinerea perched on a branch of an Alder Alnus glutinosa, the only tree along that stretch of the river. Ow...