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BBWC Home > Contents > Discussion > Conclusion We hope that this report will be useful both as a ready source of information for conservation practitioners and as a source of information for those involved in more strategic conservation policy making. The information presented here is very much the tip of the data iceberg held by the BTO, providing a concise overview of the way in which populations are changing and suggesting areas where further research and conservation action needs to be taken. Alerts are raised as a result of declines in the population
sizes of a considerable number of species. These declines will help
conservation organisations to prioritise future conservation action,
alongside the recently published Population Status of Birds list
(Gregory et al.
2002) and other information. The information concerning demographic factors contained in this report will also
help conservation organisations to target their resources more effectively.
For declining species of conservation importance, declines in breeding performance may indicate that conservation
action should be targeted at the breeding season; the lack of a
decline in breeding performance may suggest that factors other than
nesting success, such as loss of habitat or changes in survival
rates are more likely to be influencing observed population declines.
Finally, we hope that users of this report will provide feedback on how the report can be improved in the future. We welcome comments on more general aspects of this report as they will help us to produce a better and more useful product in the next edition.
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