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RSPB says the UK's gull population has declined by more than 60% since 1970, with overfishing and climate change among the suspected causes. Bird flu has also claimed thousands of sea birds ...
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales [1] and in Scotland. [2] It was founded in 1889. It works to promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom.
According to a lengthy scientific study by the RSPB [which?], 'Celtic' crossbills differ in bill size from other crossbill species found in Great Britain, and they have also been found to have a distinct Scottish accent or call, thought [by whom?] to be the method used by the birds to make sure that, especially given the physical similarities with other crossbills, they only attract and pair ...
Dozens of birds were illegally shot, poisoned or trapped last year, the charity warned as it called for more action to protect raptors. Bird of prey persecution remains at ‘high level’, RSPB ...
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and RSPB A to Z of UK Birds; Splitting headaches? Recent taxonomic changes affecting the British and Western Palaearctic lists – Martin Collinson, British Birds vol 99 (June 2006), 306–323; British Trust for Ornithology surveys
RSPB Geltsdale reserve manager Ian Ryding wants to "create a landscape that sings with life" [Victoria Benson] A vision for a nature "paradise" has been set out by conservation charity RSPB England.
Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs (often simply birdsong ) are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding , songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by function from calls (relatively simple vocalizations).
They use alarm-calls to warn others (including birds of other species such as the great tit, the European robin or the treecreeper) about the presence of predators in the neighbourhood. Scolding, for example, is used when a ground predator (e.g. fox, cat or dog), a low flying predator or a perched owl are noticed. [ 31 ]