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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Recent Reports

01 May 1978 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This report covers February; except where otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. The first week stayed fairly mild, but on 8th very cold continental polar air arrived from the eas...
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News and Comment

01 May 1978 Comments News and comment An enormous Atlas Think of some 3 million square miles, habitats as diverse as tropical forest and true desert, with all sorts of stages between; then think about 720 species of birds, many of them rare and some of them almost unknown; and then...
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Announcements

01 May 1978 Comments Editorials 'The "British Birds" List of Birds of the Western Palearctic' Established subscribers received their free copy of this list with either the March or April issue of British Birds. New subscribers should claim their copy by sending their latest a...
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