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 1979
Comments Reviews Bedfordshire Bird Atlas. By B. D. Harding. Bedfordshire Natural History Society, Luton, 1979. 144 pages; over 120 maps; 113 line-drawings by Ray Turley. £4.70.  When the BTO and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy launched their atlas survey i...
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Short Reviews

01 October 1979
Comments Reviews Kestrels in the Kitchen: the story of Bob and Pat Ratcliffe. By Meg Elizabeth Atkins. (VV. H. Allen, London, 1979. 184 pages; 17 black-and-white photographs. £4.95.) 'Kestrels, owls, gulls, buzzards, heron, geese, ducks, mynahs and crows livin...
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Recent Reports

01 October 1979
Comments News and comment We are sorry to report that S. C. Madge has decided to discontinue his joint authorship of this feature. We thank Steve for all his work on our behalf since August 1977. His successor is R. A. Hume, who will be joining Keith Allsopp as regular compiler...
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