Conservation Research News

01 October 1998 Comments News and comment A census of Common Scoters Melanitta nigra in Britain and Ireland, carried out by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in 1995, has estimated the population at 100 pairs in the Republic of Ireland and 95 pairs in the United Kingdom. In the last 30 years, ...
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Conservation Research News

01 July 1997 Comments News and comment Female birds of many species require large amounts of calcium to form their eggshells. For small birds, acquiring enough calcium can be difficult, which is why they often seek out sources of calcium, such as grit, during egg-laying. An elegant experime...
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Conservation Research News

01 June 1997 Comments News and comment The Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni is one of 24 globally threatened species found in Europe. Once very numerous, this species has crashed in numbers. Studies of survival and productivity of Lesser Kestrels in the Guadalquivir valley, Spain, provide a ni...
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Conservation Research News

01 May 1997 Comments News and comment A tenth of the World's 10,000 bird species are threatened with global extinction and 24 of these are found in Europe (about one in 20 of Europe's bird species). Dr Borja Heredia, Laurence Rose and Mary Painter provide action plans for 19 of these, as w...
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Recent reports

01 August 1968 Comments News and comment (These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary covers June 1968 and, unless otherwise stated, all dates refer to that month. A few June reports were mentioned last month {Brit. Birds, 6 1 : 527-528) where they were particula...
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Recent reports and news

01 January 1962 Comments News and comment [These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] Our last summary reviewed the occurrences of unusual Passerines and of all American species from early August to November, against a background of the more striking movements of common land ...
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Recent reports and news

01 August 1961 Comments News and comment [These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records] This summary is mainly concerned with the eight weeks from mid-June to early August and follows on after the one in our July issue (pages 293-296). It covers the rarer species and some first...
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Recent reports and news

01 January 1961 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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Recent Reports and News

01 November 1960 Comments News and comment The items here are largely unchecked reports, and must not be regarded as authenticated records. They are selected, on the present writers' judgment alone, from sources generally found to be reliable. Observers' names are usually omitted for reasons of sp...
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