News and Comment

01 September 2002 Comments News and comment The BTO has launched a £100,000 appeal to `Save Our Sparrows'. If you had read that sentence 25 years ago, perhaps even ten years ago, you might have thought that this was the issue of British Birds scheduled to arrive on April 1st, not September 1st....
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Movements of House Sparrows

01 December 1956 Comments Main paper T H E migration of birds--the routes they take, the means by which they orient themselves and reach their destination--is at present receiving' considerable attention. The House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) is generally considered to be a sedentary bird an...
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