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The Red-backed Shrike: A Vanishing British Species
Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1973 |
Authors: | Bibby, C |
Journal: | Bird Study |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 2 |
Date Published: | 1973 |
ISBN Number: | 0006-3657 |
Keywords: | Laniidae, Lanius, Lanius collurio, Lanius schach |
Abstract: | Within the next decade the Red-backed Shrike may cease to exist as a British breeding bird. The picture painted by this latest survey of its status is a gloomy one. It would appear that the combined pressures of an adverse climatic trend, the fragmentation of its habitat in the name of ?development?, and not least over-collecting of its eggs, have reduced the population to a dangerously low level.Within the next decade the Red-backed Shrike may cease to exist as a British breeding bird. The picture painted by this latest survey of its status is a gloomy one. It would appear that the combined pressures of an adverse climatic trend, the fragmentation of its habitat in the name of ?development?, and not least over-collecting of its eggs, have reduced the population to a dangerously low level. |
URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00063657309476365 |
Short Title: | Bird Study |
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