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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Monthly marathon

01 February 2001 Comments Other December's photograph (plate 364 in volume 93, repeated here as plate 48) is obviously of a wader/shorebird (depending on which side of the Atlantic you come from) and, judging by its proportions, and by its size in relation to the vegetation in the ba...
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Reviews

01 February 2001 Comments Reviews THREATENED BIRDS OF THE WORLD By BirdLife International. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, 2000. 852 pages; maps, colour illustrations. ISBN 0 946888 39 6. £70.00. Many BB readers travel the World to indulge their pass...
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News and Comment

01 February 2001 Comments News and comment A national census of Mute Swans Cygnus olor will take place in spring 2001, repeating the last one, conducted in 1990. Mute Swans are widespread during the breeding season on all manner of wetlands, including small lakes and, particularly, riv...
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