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Bird Study publishes high quality papers relevant to the sphere of interest of the British Trust for Ornithology (http://www.bto.org): broadly defined as field ornithology, especially when related to evidence-based bird conservation.

Research is especially welcome on: patterns of distribution and abundance, movements, habitat preferences, developing field census methods, ringing and other techniques for marking and tracking birds.

Bird Study concentrates on birds that occur in the Western Palearctic but welcomes papers from any part of the world that are of general interest to the areas described above.

Bird Study publishes the following types of articles:
Original research papers of any length,
Short original research papers (less than 2500 words in length),
Scientific reviews,
Forum articles covering general ornithological issues, including non-scientific ones, short feedback articles that make scientific criticisms of papers published recently in the Journal.
Bird Study also publishes critical book reviews.

Submission 

From September 2007 Bird Study will accept submissions only through the web site
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/bto

Submissions should conform to the guidelines which are found in the Instructions & Forms section on the opening page of that web site. These instructions can also be found on this site by following the Guideline for Authors link above.

General enquiries about the submission process and about the suitability of subject matter for inclusion in Bird Study can be sent to the Editor, Professor Graham Martin, Centre for Ornithology, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, at

Production

Once articles have been accepted for publication, they are processed to print by Mary Fox at Fox Editorial, PO Box 2847, Blandford Forum, DT11 0YH, UK.

Articles appearing in this journal are indexed in Environmental Periodicals Bibliography.

Bird Study is published three times a year. The 2008 subscription price is £95.00 (Europe) $180.00 (USA & Canada), £105.00 (rest of the world) post free. There is a special rate of £18.00 to members of the BTO. Subscribers in Canada must add 7% to the subscription price, to allow for GST. Subscribers in Europe must quote their VAT registration number or state that they are not registered. Subscribers in The Netherlands who are not VAT registered must add 6% to the subscription price, to allow for VAT.

To subscribe please send payment to: Chris Morley, BTO, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU, UK or E-mail: for further information or payment by credit card.

Despatch

The journal is delivered to North America by accelerated surface post and subscribers there can expect to receive their copies within two weeks of British publication. For the rest of the world, despatch is by economy airmail or, where not applicable, first class airmail. Any back numbers are normally despatched by surface to all regions.

This includes orders for offprints, advertisement bookings and enquiries. Please contact Chris Morley at the BTO, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, IP24 2PU or E-mail .

Copyright

Copyright owned by BTO. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specific clients, is granted by the British Trust for Ornithology for libraries and other users registered with the Copyright Clearance Centre (CCC) Transactional Reporting Service, providing that the base fee of $11.00 per copy is paid directly to CCC, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Special requests should be addressed to the Editor at the address given above.

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