Abstract The rapid decline of the Willow Tit Poecile montanus in the UK has made it a conservation priority species. This study, which combines recent data gathered using established survey methodology over several years from the Dearne Valley, Yorkshire, shows a landscape-scale extinction of the local breeding population.

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01.04.2024

Announcement | British Birds

BBCT grants for young birdersThe British Birds Charitable Trust has increased the maximum amount it makes available in grants to young birders, from £250 to £500. It has been awarding grants to young birders since 2014.The BBCT is again looking for applications from young people aged 16–25, for projects that need funding in 2024. A grant could fund a small-scale research

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01.04.2024

Birds named after people | British Birds

Stephen Menzie (Brit. Birds 117: 2–3) said that, in relation to the American Ornithological Society’s (AOS) planned abolition of all English language bird names featuring people, he had ‘a lot of sympathy with the idea that eponymous species names go, no exceptions.

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01.04.2024

The Life of Birds (second edition) | British Birds

rev life of.jpg The Life of Birds (second edition)By David AttenboroughWilliam Collins, 2023Hbk, 276pp; 64 pages of colour photographsISBN 978-0-008-63895-5; £17.50 I was 11 when The Life of Birds hit television screens and, while many of my peers were under the covers reading comics by torchlight late at night, I was reading – and rereading – the book (BBC Books, 1998) that

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