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Red Sixty Seven
2020 | Curated by Kit Jewitt
Red Sixty Seven is a collaboration between 67 authors and 67 artists with a single goal: to raise funds to support conservation work aiming to reverse the declines of our most at-risk birds.
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Behavioural responses of non-breeding waterbirds to drone approach are associated with flock size and habitat
Do drones disturb wintering waterbirds?
2020 | Jarrett, D., Calladine, J., Cotton, A., Wilson, M.W. & Humphreys, E. Bird Study
Newly published research, carried out by staff at BTO Scotland, has investigated the response to wintering waterbirds to drones, and shown that they can be easily scared into flight by drone use.
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Investigating the implications of shifting baseline syndrome on conservation
2020 | Jones, L.P., Turvey, S.T., Massimino, D. & Papworth, S.K. People and Nature
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Do surveys of adult dragonflies and damselflies yield repeatable data? Variation in monthly counts of abundance and species richness
2020 | Pearce-Higgins, J.W. & Chandler, D. Journal of Insect Conservation
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Disentangling the relative roles of climate and land cover change in driving the long‐term population trends of European migratory birds
2020 | Howard, C., Stephens, P.A., Pearce‐Higgins, J.W., Gregory, R.D., Butchart, S.H.M. & Willis, S.G. Diversity and Distributions
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Ensuring tests of conservation interventions build on existing literature
2020 | Sutherland, W.J., Alvarez‐Castañeda, S.T., Amano, T., Ambrosini, R., Atkinson, P., Baxter, J.M., Bond, A.L., Boon, P.J., Buchanan, K.L., Barlow, J., Bogliani, G., Bragg, O.M., Burgman, M., Cadotte, M.W., Calver, M., Cooke, S.J., Corlett, R.T., Devictor, V., Ewen, J.G., Fisher, M., Freeman, G., Game, E., Godley, B.J., Gortázar, C., Hartley, I.R., Hawksworth, D.L., Hobson, K.A. Lu, M.-L., Martín‐López, B., Ma, K., Machado, A., Maes, D., Mangiacotti, M., McCafferty, D.J., Melfi, V., Molur, S., Moore, A.J., Murphy, S.D., Norris, D., van Oudenhoven, A.P.E., Powers, J., Rees, E.C., Schwartz, M.W., Storch, I. & Wordley, C. Conservation Biology
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Can microclimate offer refuge to an upland bird species under climate change?
2020 | Massimino, D., Beale, C. M., Suggitt, A. J., Crick, H. Q. P., Macgregor, N. A., Carroll, M. J., Maclean, I. M. D. & Pearce-Higgins, J. W. Landscape Ecology
Climate change is now widely recognised as having a large impact on biodiversity, affecting species distributions at a large spatial scale.
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Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities
2020 | Cooke, S.C., Balmford, A., Donald, P.F., Newson, S.E. & Johnston, A. Nature Communications
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Evaluating the potential for bird‐habitat models to support biodiversity‐friendly urban planning
2020 | Plummer, K.E., Gillings, S. & Siriwardena, G.M. Journal of Applied Ecology
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Breeding bird communities within a parkland-woodland continuum: the distinctiveness of wood-pasture
2020 | Fuller, R.J. & Green, T. Arboricultural Journal
Research Reports
Audit of local studies of breeding Curlew and other waders in Britain and Ireland
2020 | Wilson, M., Calladine, J. & Wernham, C.
The Eurasian Curlew is widely considered to be one of the highest bird conservation priorities in the UK and Ireland. A number of other breeding waders have also showed marked declines during a similar time frame, and a multitude of field initiatives across Britain and Ireland have been established, or tailored, to support conservation of these wader species. This audit aimed to collate information from as many of these breeding wader projects as possible, to allow BTO to assess how best it might assist local to national initiatives through partnership working in future.
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Livestock grazing impacts components of the breeding productivity of a common upland insectivorous passerine: Results from a long‐term experiment
2020 | Malm, L.E., Pearce‐Higgins, J.W., Littlewood, N.A., Karley, A.J., Karaszewska, E., Jaques, R., Pakeman, R.J., Redpath, S.M. & Evans, D.M. Journal of Applied Ecology
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What motivates the masses: Understanding why people contribute to conservation citizen science projects
2020 | Maund, P.R., Irvine, K.N., Lawson, B., Steadman, J., Risely, K., Cunningham, A.A. & Davies, Z.G. Biological Conservation
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A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors
2020 | Espín, S., Andevski, J., Duke, G., Eulaers, I., Gómez-Ramírez, P., Hallgrimsson, G.T., Helander, B., Herzke, D., Jaspers, V.L.B., Krone, O., Lourenço, R., María-Mojica, P., Martínez-López, E., Mateo, R., Movalli, P., Sánchez-Virosta, P., Shore, R.F., Sonne, C., van den Brink, N.W., van Hattum, B., Vrezec, A., Wernham, C. & García-Fernández, A.J. Ambio
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Aflatoxin and ochratoxin A residues in supplementary foods used for wild birds
2020 | Lawson, B., Robinson, R.A. Parmar, M., Killick, R., Cunningham, A.A. & MacDonald, S.J. Science of The Total Environment
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Effect of GPS tagging on behaviour and marine distribution of breeding Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea
2020 | Seward, A., Taylor, R.C., Perrow, M.R., Berridge, R.J., Bowgen, K.M., Dodd, S., Johnstone, I. & Bolton, M. Ibis
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Survival varies seasonally in a migratory bird: linkages between breeding and non‐breeding periods
2020 | Robinson, R.A., Meier, C.M., Witvliet, W., Kéry, M. & Schaub, M. Journal of Animal Ecology
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Evidence for senescence in survival but not in reproduction in a short-lived passerine
2020 | Fay, F., Schaub, M., Border, J.A., Henderson, I.G., Fahl, G., Feulner, J., Horch, P., Müller, M., Rebstock, H., Shitikov, D., Tome, D., Vögeli, M. & Grüebler, M.U. Ecology and Evolution
The Breeding Bird Survey Report
The Breeding Bird Survey 2019
2020 | Harris, S.J., Massimino, D., Balmer, D.E., Eaton, M.A., Noble, D.G., Pearce-Higgins, J.W., Woodcock, P. & Gillings, S.
BBS / WBBS trends for breeding birds in the UK for 1994-2019
Research Reports
Fine-scale mapping of relative abundance and trends, and extraction of small-area population trends for breeding birds
2020 | Border, J.A. & Gillings, S.
Peer-reviewed papers
Positive impacts of important bird and biodiversity areas on wintering waterbirds under changing temperatures throughout Europe and North Africa
2020 | Pavón-Jordán, D., Abdou, W., Azafzaf. H., Balaž, M., Bino, T., Borg, J.J., Božič, L., Butchart, S.H.M., Clausen, P.., Sniauksta, L., DakkiM., Devos, K., Domsa, C., Encarnaçao, V., Etayeb, K., Faragó, S., Fox, A.D., Frost, T., Gaudard, C., Georgiev, V., Goratz, I., Hornman, M., Keller, V., Kostiushyn, V., Langendoen, T., Ławicki, Ł., Ieronymidou, C., Lewis, L.J., Lorentsen, S.-H., Luigujoe, L., Meissner, W., Mikuska, T., Molina, B., Musil, P., Musilova, Z., Nagy, S., Natykanets, V., Nilsson, L., Paquet, J.-Y., Portolou, D., Ridzon, J., Santangeli, A., Sayoud, S., Šćiban, M., Stipniece, A., Teufelbauer, N., Topić, G., Uzunova, D., Vizi, A., Wahl, J., E.Yavuz, K.E., Zenatello, M. & Lehikoinen, A. Biological Conservation
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