Conservation research news

01 September 2006
Comments News and comment Some species are more vulnerable to predation than others and similarly, within a given species, one sex may be more vulnerable to predation than the other. Males may be more vulnerable than females, for example, because of behaviours related to attrac...
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Conservation research news

01 May 2003
Comments News and comment The Dutch Wadden Sea is of international importance for Common Eiders Somateria mollissima, with between 102,000 and 173,000 individuals spending the winter there. In the winter of 1999/2000, beached bird surveys detected a mass mortality even...
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Conservation research news

01 May 2002
Comments News and comment The Willow Tit Parus montanus is a declining woodland species in the UK which is likely to be included in the Red List of Birds of Conservation Concern at the next revision (RSPB, in prep.). In Scandinavian forests, however, it is one of the m...
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Reviews

01 March 1995
Comments Reviews Birds of Iberia By Clive Finlayson & David Tomlinson. Mirador Publications, Fuengirola, 1993. 220 pages; over 150 colour plates; 19 line-drawings. ISBN 84-88127-08-1. £20.00. This colourful book will surely achieve the authors' commendable ho...
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Notes

01 July 1990
Comments Notes Little Grebes rearing three broods in Buckinghamshire. Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis first bred at Aylesbury sewage-works, Buckinghamshire, in 1981, when a wet grassland irrigation plot remained flooded throughout the summer. In 1986, a small (0...
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Notes

01 October 1983
Comments Notes Prolonged aerial encounters between Hen Harrier and Goshawk On 17th February 1980, I observed a 'ringtail' (female/immature) Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus flying low over a Yorkshire moorland. I watched it for several minutes, after which it was j...
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Breeding Bitterns in Britain

01 July 1978
Comments Main paper The Bittern Botaurus stellaris was the first of six former breeding birds to recolonise Britain this century, preceding the next, the Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, by 35 years. This paper draws together for the first time the rather scattered referenc...
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