Archive for 2008

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• Research on urban house sparrow decline

  Wednesday October 22nd, 2008

  Senior Ecologist Dr Kate Vincent’s research, carried out in partnership with Natural England and the RSPB, examined the reasons for the decline in urban house sparrows in Britain. The research (published in the Journal of Animal Conservation) attracted considerable media attention and has been short …

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• Minimal effects of wind turbines on the distribution of wintering farmland birds

  Sunday April 20th, 2008

  Baker Shepherd Gillespie co-funded a research project with Newcastle University, which was designed to assess the effect of wind turbines on the distribution of farmland birds in light of the move towards constructing more wind farms in lowland agricultural areas.