… significant given that some of these species are among the commoner British breeding birds.
Of the 15 species with breeding populations estimated by Gibbons et al. (1993) to be over …

… For almost four decades the British Trust for Ornithology has monitored populations of the …
of British breeding birds. The monitoring involves surveillance of numbers, breeding output …

… Here we test these hypotheses by characterising habitat use of British breeding birds using
extensive census and environmental data. A group of 85 bird species was considered for …

… (in particular a consideration of the coverage of the British breeding avifauna and the
sampling strategy for the new Breeding Bird Survey [BBSJ) and how we can assess achievement …

… We illustrate this method using British breeding birds as a case study. British breeding birds
provide an excellent test case as they are a very well-studied group, with a varied range of …

… We compare a widely used range-shift detection method previously used to demonstrate
that climate change caused British breeding bird distributions to move northwards with …

… We suggest that range contractions in British birds can generally … breeding birds suffered
contractions in their British breeding … in the breeding distribution of a particular bird species may …

This report, covering the 2011 breeding season, is the 38th report of the Rare Breeding Birds
Panel (RBBP) and includes details of 88 species or distinctive races that bred (or showed …

… About 60 of the rarer British breeding species are listed separately in the First Schedule and
are accorded special protection. The remaining unscheduled species, numbering about 370…