The conservation status and trends of raptors and owls in Europe

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 401-407

  Burfield, Ian J ^a,b  

^a BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Wellbrook Court ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; OWL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAPTOR;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAPTORS; STRIGIFORMES;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 53549092759     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[401:TCSATO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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20. For supplying the population and trend data on which this assessment is based, I thank all the national coordinators and contributors listed in Birds in Europe (6, 7) and the thousands of volunteers and professionals who monitor raptors and owls in the field across Europe. I am also grateful to Paola Movalli Duke for her encouragement and patience, and to Humphrey Crick, Boris Barov, András Kovacs, and Ubbo Mammen for their constructive comments on an earlier draft.