It is widely known that information on Honeybuzzards Pernis apivorus in Britain was withheld from both the 1968­72 and the 1988­91 national breeding atlases and, until recently, also from the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP). Consequently, there is a regrettable dearth of published data on numbers and population trends over the second half of the twentieth century. We find it no less regrett

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