[WestPalBirds] February British Birds - now out
Subject: [WestPalBirds] February British Birds - now out
From: Dawn Balmer
Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012, 10:34 AM
*British Birds** February 2012*
The February issue of *British Birds* is now out and contains the following
articles.
*Bitterns and Bittern Conservation in the UK *
Andy Brown, Gillian Gilbert and Simon Wotton* *tell the full story of
Bitterns and of the Bittern conservation effort in the UK. Once widespread
and even locally numerous across the lowlands of the UK, the Eurasian
Bittern had been extirpated by a combination of habitat loss and
persecution by the late 1880s. After the species returned, at the start of
the second decade of the twentieth century, numbers increased to a peak in
the 1950s, before falling precipitously to a low point in 1997, when the
population was only just into double figures. Extinction
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