BirdLife International news

01 April 1993
Comments Editorials Polish promise. In February, the Polish Society for the Protection of Birds (OTOP) recruited its 1,000th member, just one year alter its formal launch in February 1992. I( also produced the first issue of its membership magazine. These excellent a...
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ICBP news

01 March 1993
Comments Editorials In Focus County Birdrace. Entries are now being taken for this year's In Focus County Birdrace. As usual, the event is open to teams of four, and the aim is to see as many species of bird as possible within the boundaries of a single county i...
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ICBP news

01 October 1992
Comments Editorials Puna Grebe new.s Bad news on the Puna Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii, endemic to Lake Junin in Peru and one of the world's most threatened birds. Once abundant, the population was estimated to have dropped to 200-300 individuals in 1987, but terrorist act...
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ICBP news

01 August 1992
Comments Editorials Agriculture in eastern Europe--a call for co-operation. A major concern that was highlighted at the ICBP's European Continental Section Conference in Aachen, Germany, this May was that agricultural developments in eastern Europe should not result in de...
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ICBP news

01 April 1992
Comments Editorials Racing for the steppes. Next month there is the annual County Bird Race: a chance to test your birding skills, as well as raise money for top-priority conservation. If you had taken part in the County Bird Race 200 years ago, and were competing in East...
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ICBP news

01 March 1992
Comments Editorials Birding abroad. Last summer, Mark Pearman, a British birder now living in Argentina, rediscovered one of t h e world's least-known birds, Kaempfer's Tody-tyrant Hemitriccus kaempferi, in humid lowland forest in southern Brazil. This species was de...
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ICBP news

01 February 1992
Comments Editorials Romanian mission. In early October 1991, John Bishop and Richard Howard (BTO President) completed a 3,000-mile (4,800-km) round trip to Romania on behalf of ICBP. Their mission was to deliver equipment to the fledgling Romanian Ornithological Society (...
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ICBP news

01 January 1992
Comments Editorials Progress in Malta? On a recent visit to Malta, ICBP Migratory Birds Officer Tobias Salathe witnessed the extent of the illegal shooting that occurs on the island. At Buskett Gardens, for example, the major pine forest of the Maltese islands and an attr...
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'BB' goes independent

01 August 1980
Comments Editorials Since its inception, British Birds has been run by a commercial publishingfirm: first by H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd and, since 1st April 1973, by Macmillan Journals Ltd. Now, as from 1st August 1980, the journal is completely independent and will...
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