The growing need for baseline data against which efforts to reduce the rate of biodiversity
loss can be judged highlights the importance of long-term datasets, some of which are as …

There is an urgent need to thoroughly review and comprehend the effects of urbanization on
wildlife in order to understand both the ecological implications of increasing urbanization …

Most arable field margins are sown grass strips which are limited in the avian food resources
they offer but potentially supply grass seeds and, depending on the complexity of the sward …

This is the fourth major review of the status of birds occurring in the UK, Channel Islands and
Isle of Man. We present Red, Amber and Green lists of conservation concern based on …

Many bird species of lowland farmland have declined substantially in the United Kingdom
over the past 30 years. Declines among farmland specialists are steeper than for generalists …

In contrast to their rarity, the commonness of species has historically received surprisingly
little explicit attention from ecologists. However, this situation is changing. Here I review the …

Species-level conservation activities tend to be focused on those species that are highly
threatened with global or regional extinction in the near future. This is broadly logical, if one …

Red-throated diver breeding success was close to, or above, average at the majority of sites
monitored, although all nests on Coll failed due to bad weather. Northern fulmar numbers …

It has recently been proposed that losses in farmland habitat heterogeneity may have been
a primary driver of the profound declines exhibited by many farmland bird species in recent …

Data on the breeding success of two crop‐nesting passerines, Skylark Alauda arvensis and
Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava, were collected in relation to linear features within and …