The scottish raptor monitoring scheme: Objectives, achievements in the first four years, and plans for future development

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Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 460-465

  Wernham, Chris V ^a,b   Etheridge, Brian ^c   Holling, Mark ^d   Riddle, Gordon ^e   Riley, Helen T ^f   Stirling Aird, Patrick K ^g   Stroud, David ^h   Thompson, Des B A ⁱ   Wilson, Jeremy D ^c  

^a THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d Rare Breeding Birds Panel   (United Kingdom)

^e Scottish Birdwatching Resource Centre   (United Kingdom)

^f Greenwings 15   (United Kingdom)

^g Scottish Raptor Study Groups (SRSGs)   (United Kingdom)

^h JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUTURE PROSPECT; RAPTOR; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FALCONIFORMES; GOVERNMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FALCONIFORMES; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCOTLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CORVIDA; CORVUS CORAX; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 53549108310     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[463:TSRMSO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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40. We thank the following colleagues within the Scottish Raptor Monitoring Group: Nigel Buxton and Colin Galbraith (Scottish Natural Heritage): Humphrey Crick and Jeremy Greenwood (British Trust for Ornithology); David Stroud (Joint Nature Conservation Committee); Jon Hardey, Alan Heavisides, and Wendy Mattingley (Scottish Raptor Monitoring Group); and Duncan Orr-Ewing and Innes Sim (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). We thank the Scottish Natural Heritage, the British Trust for Ornithology, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for funding elements and all the other partners for their in-kind time commitments. The British Trust for Ornithology provided Chris V. Wernham with core-funded time to attend the Sicily Raptor Workshop and to draft this paper. Most of all we are extremely grateful to members of the Scottish Raptor Study Groups and others who give so generously of their time to survey raptors in Scotland.