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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Winter summary

01 October 1976
Comments News and comment There were few reports of gatherings of divers. The only ones of any real interest were as follows: 15 Great Northern Gavia immer at Golspie (Highland) in mid-January; 24 Black-throated G. arctica near Dodman Point (Cornwall) on 20th March; and 35 Red-...
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News and Comment

01 October 1976
Comments News and comment British ornithologists held by guerrillas Since about 9th May, Stephanie Tyler, well known for her studies of Grey Wagtails (e.g. Bird Study, 19: 69-80), together with her husband Lindsay and their two children, Robert (8) and Sarah (5), have b...
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