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It is BTO’s policy to make public the results of our research. Our aim is to publish as much as possible of our work in the peer reviewed scientific literature.  Many results are also published in our BTO Research Report series.

Coiffait, L., Clark, J.A., Robinson, R.A., Blackburn, J.R., Grantham, M.J., Marchant, J.H., Barber, L., de Palacio, D., Griffin, B.M. & Moss, D. 2008. Bird ringing in Britain and Ireland in 2007. Ringing & Migration 24 : 104-144 View Abstract
Coiffait, L., Clark, J.A., Robinson, R.A., Blackburn, J.R., Griffin, B.M., Risely, K., Grantham, M.J., Marchant, J.H., Girling, T. & Barber, L. 2008. Bird ringing in Britain and Ireland in 2006. Ringing & Migration 24 : 15-79 View Abstract
Colhoun, K., Austin, G. & Newton, S. 2008. Wader populations on non-estuarine coasts in the Republic of Ireland: results of the 1997/98 Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey (Ireland-NEWS). Book title: The European Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey.(International Wader Studies 18.) International Wader Study Group, Thetford, UK. : 39-47 View Abstract
Crowe, O., Austin, G.E., Colhoun, K., Cranswick, P.A., Kershaw, M. & Musgrove, A.J. 2008. Estimates and trends of waterbird numbers wintering in Ireland, 1994/95 to 2003/04. Bird Study 55 : 66-67 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063650809461506)
Douglas, D.J.T., Evans, D.M. & Redpath, S.M. 2008. Selection of foraging habitat and nestling diet by Meadow Pipits Anthus pratensis breeding on intensively grazed moorland. Bird Study 55 : 290-296 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063650809461534)
Evans, K.L., Newson, S.E., Storch, D., Greenwood, J.J.D., & Gaston, K.J. 2008. Spatial scale, abundance and the species-energy relationships in British birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 77 : 395-405 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01332.x)
Firbank, L.G., Petit, S., Smart, S., Blain, A. & Fuller, R.J. 2008. Assessing the impacts of agricultural intensification on biodiversity: a British perspective. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B 363 : 777-787 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2183)
Freeman, S.N. & Newson, S.E. 2008. On a log-linear approach to detecting ecological interactions in monitored populations. Ibis 150 : 250-258 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2007.00770.x.)
Fuller, R.J. & Ausden, M. 2008. Birds and habitat change in Britain. Part 1: a review of losses and gains in the twentieth century. British Birds 101 : 644-675
Gillings, S. 2008. Designing a winter bird atlas field methodology: issues of time and space in sampling and interactions with habitat. Journal of Ornithology 149 : 345-355 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1007/s10336-008-0286-x)
Gillings, S., Wilson, A.M., Conway, G.J., Vickery, J.A. & Fuller, R.J. 2008. Distribution and abundance of birds and their habitats within the lowland farmland of Britain in winter. Bird Study 55 : 8-22 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063650809461500)
Gilroy, J.J., Anderson, G.Q.A., Grice, P.V., Vickery, J.A., Bray, I., Watts, P.N. & Sutherland, W.J 2008. Could soil degradation contribute to farmland bird declines? Links between soil penetrability and the abundance of yellow wagtails Motacilla flava in arable fields. Biological Conservation 141 : 3 116-3 126 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.09.019)
Gregory, R.D., Vorisek, P., Noble, D.G., Van Strien, A., Klvanova, A., Eaton, M., Meyling, A.W.G., Joys, A., Foppen, R.P.B. & Burfield, I.J. 2008. The generation and use of bird population indicators in Europe. Bird Conservation International 18 : 233-244 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1017/S0959270908000312)
Gunnarsson, T.G., Appleton, G.F., Gar 2008. Large-scale habitat selection and geographical distribution of Greylag Geese in Iceland during the breeding season/ Búsvæðaval og stofnstærd grágæsa á láglendi. Bliki 29 : 11-18
Harris, C.M., Calladine, J.R., Wernham, C.V. & Park, K.J. 2008. Impacts of piscivorous birds on salmonid populations and game fisheries in Scotland: a review. Wildlife Biology 14 : 395-411 View Abstract
King, R., Brooks, S.P., Mazzetta, C., Freeman, S.N. & Morgan.B.J.T. 2008. Identifying and diagnosing population declines: a Bayesian assessment of lapwings in the UK. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C - Applied Statistics 57 : 609-632 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00633.x)
Lack, P., Showell, C. & Toomer, J. 2008. BTO is 75 years old - what have its archives got to offer?. British Wildlife 19 : 323-329
Maclean, I.M.D., Austin, G.E., Rehfisch, M.M., Blew, J., Crowe, O., Delany, S., Devos, K., Deceuninck, B., G 2008. Climate change causes rapid changes in the distribution and site abundance of birds in winter. Global Change Biology 14 : 2 489-2 500 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01666.x)
MacLeod, R., Clark, J. & Cresswell, W. 2008. The starvation-predation risk trade-off, body mass and population status in the Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris. Ibis 150 : 199-208 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00820.x)
Newson, S.E. & Noble, D.G. 2008. The Breeding Bird Survey for mapping Britain's birds: a preliminary assessment of performance at two spatial scales. Revista Catalana d 24 : 107-117
Newson, S.E., Evans, K.L., Noble, D.G., Greenwood, J.J.D. & Gaston, K.J. 2008. Use of distance sampling to improve estimates of national population sizes for common and widespread breeding birds in the UK. Journal of Applied Ecology 45 : 1 330-1 338 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01480.x)
Newson, S.E., Mendes, S., Crick, H.Q.P., Dulvy, N.K., Houghton, J.D.R., Hays, G.C., Hutson, A.M., Macleod, C.D., Pierce, G.J. & Robinson, R.A. 2008. Indicators of the impact of climate change on migratory species. Endangered Species Research 7 : 101-113 Link to Article (DOI: 10.3354/esr00162)
Newson, S.E., Mitchell, P.I., Parsons, M., O'Brian, S.H., Austin, G.E., Benn, S., Black, J., Blackburn, J., Brodie, B., Humphreys, E., Leech, D., Prior, M. & Webster, M. 2008. Population decline of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa within the largest colony in Britain and Ireland. Seabird 21 : 77-84 View Abstract
Niles, L.J., Sitters, H.P., Dey, A.D., Atkinson, P.W., Bake, A.J., Bennett, K.A., Carmona, R., Clark, K.E., Clark, N.A., Espoz, C., Gonz 2008. Status of the Red Knot Calidris canutus rufa in the Western Hemisphere. Studies in Avian Biology 36 Cooper Ornithological Siciety : 1-185 Link to Article (DOI: 978-0-943610-83-2)
Park, K.J., Graham, K.E., Calladine, J. & Wernham, C.V. 2008. Impacts of birds of prey on gamebirds in the UK: a review. Ibis 150 : 9-26 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00847.x)
Pretty, J., Smith, G., Goulding, K.W.T., Groves, S.J., Henderson, I., Hine, R.E., King, V., van Oostrum, J., Pendlington, D.J., Vis, J.K. & Walter, C. 2008. Multi-year assessment of Unilever's progress towards agricultural sustainability I: indicators, methodology and pilot farm results. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 6 : 37-62 Link to Article (DOI: 10.3763/ijas.2007.0322)
Pretty, J., Smith, G., Goulding, K.W.T., Groves, S.J., Henderson, I., Hine, R.E., King, V., van Oostrum, J., Pendlington, D.J., Vis, J.K. & Walter, C. 2008. Multi-year assessment of Unilever's progress towards agricultural sustainability II: outcomes for peas (UK), spinach (Germany, Italy), tomatoes (Australia, Brazil, Greece, USA), tea (Kenya, Tanzania, India) and oil palm (Ghana). International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 6 : 63-88 Link to Article (DOI: 10.3763/ijas.2007.0323)
Rehfisch, M. & Maclean, I. 2008. Guidelines on the measures needed to help waterbirds adapt to climate change. AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 12, AEWA Technical Series No. 27, Bonn. Germany View Abstract
Rehfisch, M.M., Austin, G.E. & Burton, N.H.K. 2008. The future of wader monitoring on Europe's non-estuarine coasts. Book title: The European Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey.(International Wader Studies 18.) International Wader Study Group, Thetford, UK. : 103-108 View Abstract
Robb, G.N., MacDonald, R.A., Chamberlain, D.E. & Bearhop, S. 2008. Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6 : 476-484 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1890/060152)
Robb, G.N., MacDonald, R.A., Chamberlain, D.E., Reynolds, S.J., Harrison, T.J.E. & Bearhop, S. 2008. Winter feeding of birds increases productivity in the subsequent breeding season. Biology Letters 4 : 220-223 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0622)
Robinson, R.A. 2008. Swan Lake: use by migrating waterfowl of the lakes in southern Sukhbaatar, Mongolia. Wildfowl 58 : 97-105
Robinson, R.A., Balmer, D.E. & Marchant, J.H. 2008. Survival rates of hirundines in relation to British and African rainfall. Ringing & Migration 24 : 1-6 View Abstract
Robinson, R.A., Crick, H.Q.P., Learmonth, J.A., Maclean, I.M.D., Thomas, C.D., Bairlein, F., Forchhammer, M.C., Francis, C.M., Gill, J.A., Godley, B.J., Harwood, J., Hays, G.C., Huntley, B., Hutson, A.M., Pierce, G.J., Rehfisch, M.M., Sims, D.W., Santos, M.B., Sparks, T.H., Stroud, D.A. & Visser, M.E. 2008. Travelling through a warming world: climate change and migratory species. Endangered Species Research 7 : 87-99 Link to Article (DOI: 10.3354/esr00095)
Sharpe, F., Clark, J. & Leech, D. 2008. Does variation in demographic parameters account for regional variation in Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus population declines across Great Britain?. Bird Study 55 : 247-256 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063650809461530)
Shaw, L.M., Chamberlain, D.E. & Evans, M.R. 2008. The house sparrow, Passer domesticus in urban areas: reviewing a possible link between post-decline distribution and human socioeconomic status. Journal of Ornithology 149 : 293-299 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1007/s10336-008-0285-y)
Sims, V., Evans, K.L., Newson, S.E., Tratalos, J.A. & Gaston, K.J. 2008. Avian assemblage structure and domestic cat densities in urban environments. Diversity and Distributions 14 : 387-399 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00444.x)
Siriwardena, G.M., Calbrade, N.A. & Vickery, J.A. 2008. Farmland birds and late winter food: does seed supply fail to meet demand?. Ibis 150 : 585-595 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2008.00828.x)
Skov, H., Humphreys, E., Garthe, S., Geitner, K., Gr 2008. Application of habitat suitability modelling to tracking data of marine animals as a means of analyzing their feeding habitats. Ecological Modelling 212 : 504-512 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.11.006)
Sutherland, W.J., Bailey, M.J., Bainbridge, I.P., Brereton, T., Dick, J.T.A., Drewitt, J., Dulvy, N.K., Dusic, N.R., Freckleton, R.P., Gaston, K.J., Gilder, P.M., Green, R.E., Heathwaite, A.L., Johnson, S.M., Macdonald, D.W., Mitchell, R., Osborn, D., Owen, R.P., Pretty, J., Prior, S.V., Prosser, H., Pullin, A.S., Rose, P., Stott, A., Tew, T., Thomas, C.D., Thompson, D.B.A., Vickery, J.A., Walker, M., Walmsley, C., Warrington, S., Watkinson, A.R., Williams, R.J., Woodroffe, R. & Woodroof, H.J. 2008. Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning. Journal of Applied Ecology 45 : 821-833 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01474.x)
Thorup, O., Ettrup, H. & Burton, N.H.K. 2008. The 1997/98 Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey in Denmark. Book title: The European Non-Estuarine Coastal Waterbird Survey.(International Wader Studies 18.) International Wader Study Group, Thetford, UK. : 19-21 View Abstract
Votier, S.C., Birkhead, T.R., Oro, D., Trinder, M., Grantham, M.J., Clark, J.A., McCleery, R.H. & Hatchwell, B.J. 2008. Recruitment and survival of immature seabirds in relation to oil spills and climate variability. Journal of Animal Ecology 77 : 974-983 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01421.x)
Wernham, C.V., Etheridge, B., Holling, M., Riddle, G., Riley, H.T., Stirling-Aird, P.K., Stroud, D., Thompson, D.B.A. & Wilson, J. 2008. The Scottish Raptor Monitoring Scheme: objectives, achievements in the first four years, and plans for future development. Ambio 37 : 460-465 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[463:TSRMSO]2.0.CO;2)
Atkinson, P.W., Baker, A.J., Bennett, K.A., Clark, N.A., Clark, J.A., Cole, K.B., Dekinga, A., Dey, A., Gillings, S., Gonzalez, P.M. Kalasz, K. Minton, C.D.T., Niles, L.J., Piersma, T., Robinson, R.A. & Sitters, H.P. 2007. Rates of mass gain and energy deposition in red knot on their final spring staging site is both time- and condition-dependent. Journal of Applied Ecology 44 : 885-895 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2007.01308.x)
Atkinson, P.W., Robinson, R.A., Clark, J.A., Miyar, T., Downie, I.S., du Feu, C., Fiedler, W., Fransson, T., Grantham, M.J., Gschweng, M., Spina, F. & Crick, H.Q.P. 2007. Migratory movements of waterfowl: a web-based mapping tool. EURING report to the EU Commission. View Abstract
Austin, G.A., Rehfisch, M.M., Allan, J.R. & Holloway, S.J. 2007. Population size and differential population growth of introduced Greater Canada Geese Branta canadensis and re-established Greylag Geese Anser anser across habitats in Great Britain in the year 2000. Bird Study 54 : 343-352 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063650709461494)
Blackburn, J. 2007. A summary of British Trust for Ornithology's (BTO) colour marking co-ordination and procedures. Aves 44 : 130-134
Blackburn, J., Blackburn, A. & Budworth, D. 2007. The breeding birds of Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry. British Birds 100 : 300-308
Burton, N.H.K. 2007. Influences of restock age and habitat patchiness on Tree Pipits Anthus trivialis breeding in Breckland pine plantations. Ibis 149 : 193-204 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00737.x)
Burton, N.H.K. 2007. Intraspecific latitudinal variation in nest orientation among ground-nesting passerines: a study using published data. Condor 109 : 441-446 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2007)109[441:ILVINO]2.0.CO;2)

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