Letters

01 June 2003
Comments Letters In October 2000, the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) commissioned a consortium (consisting of the BTO, the RSPB/Oxford University Farmland Bird Group, the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) and WildWings Bird Management) ...
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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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Letters

01 May 2000
Comments Letters The dramatic decline in the numbers of House Sparrows Passer domesticus in the centre of London over the past 20 or so years is well documented and generally accepted (Summers-Smith 1999). Indeed, the matter of the decrease has already been raised twic...
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