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The boundaries of the Palearctic region

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Although the western and eastern boundaries of the Palearctic region are widely agreed, there is still much debate about the southern boundary. In an attempt to establish a definitive southern boundary, the distribution of 1,037 breeding passe...

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...

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\' ÃÂ¯Â¿Â½ the highest threat category. In the face of these statistics it is difficult to remain optimistic, b...

Racial identification and assessment in Britain: a report from the RIACT subcommittee

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper Throughout the past 100 years or so, interest in the racial identification of bird species has blown hot and cold. Many of today's familiar species were first described during the nineteenth century and, as interest in new forms grew, many collectors b...

Recent reports

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid October to mid November 2006. ...

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...

British Birds – December 2006

01 December 2006 Comments Latest issues ...

News and comment

01 December 1981 Comments News and comment New NNRs The Nature Conservancy Council has announced the creation of two new National Nature Reserves. The Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods NNR, covering some 300 ha, has been formed with three major additions to the former Workmans NNR: the co...

Requests

01 December 1981 Comments Editorials Winter Atlas The BTO and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy have launched a major project, the Winter Adas. Fieldwork starts in mid November and continues until the end of February in each of. the next three winters (in 1981/82, the precise dates a...

Announcements

01 December 1981 Comments Editorials Gift subscriptions Readers are reminded that special gift cards are available so that British Birds can be given as a present to a friend. You may obtain such gift subscriptions at the same rate as your own; the gift card will be sent separatel...

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