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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Recent reports

01 April 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The following summary deals with December 1972 and January 1973, with February taken into account in some cases where relevant. The weather during this time was characterised by its extrao...
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News and comment

01 April 1973 Comments News and comment 1973 All-Ireland Conference It is usually encouraging to see an ornithological conference attracting public attention, but this All-Ireland Conference, held at Newcastle, Co. Down, during 2nd-4th March, perhaps went too far in that it started w...
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Rare Breeding Birds Panel

01 April 1973 Comments Editorials In 1968 the council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds established a subcommittee, known as the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, to collect together in one place the records of rare breeding birds in Britain. This subcommittee consisted of A. W...
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