Latest stocktake of the UK's birds

03 Feb 2020

Estimates of population size are a key tool to assess conservation status. Periodic assessments of the size of breeding and wintering bird populations are made by the Avian Population Estimates Panel (APEP).

Read a summary of their latest assessment for Great Britain and the UK, newly published in the Journal of British Birds.

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Latest stocktake of the UK's birds

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