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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.

Marchant, J.H. 1980. Recent trends in Sparrowhawk numbers in Britain. Bird Study 27 : 152-154 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063658009476673)
Marchant, J.H. 1980. Some results of the BTO Waterways Bird Survey. Book title: Bird census work and nature conservation. Proceedings of VI International Conference on Bird Census Work Lengede, Gottingen : 176-180
Marchant, J.H. & Hyde, P.A. 1980. Aspects of the distribution of riparian birds on waterways in Britain and Ireland. Bird Study 27 : 183-202 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063658009476678)
Marchant, J.H. & Hyde, P.A. 1980. Bird population changes for the years 1977-78. Bird Study 27 : 35-40 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063658009476654)
Marchant, J.H. & Hyde, P.A. 1980. Population changes for waterways birds, 1978-79. Bird Study 27 : 179-182 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063658009476677)
Mead, C. 1980. My week ... as a ringing officer. Biologist 27 : 241-242
Mead, C.J. 1980. Sand Martins moulting primaries in Britain. Bird Study 27 : 51-53 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063658009476656)
Morgan, R.A. & O'Connor, R.J. 1980. Farmland habitat and Yellowhammer distribution in Britain. Bird Study 27 : 166-162 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063658009476674)
O'Connor, R.J. 1980. Ornithology in Ireland. British Birds 73 : 85-92
O'Connor, R.J. 1980. Pattern and process in Great Tit (Parus major) populations in Britain. Ardea 68 : 165-183
O'Connor, R.J. 1980. Population regulation in the Yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella in Britain. Book title: Bird census work and nature conservation. Proceedings of VI International Conference on Bird Census Work Lengede, Gottingen : 190-200
O'Connor, R.J. 1980. The effects of census date on the results of intensive Common Birds Census surveys. Bird Study 27 : 126-136 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063658009476671)
O'Connor, R.J. & Hicks, R.K. 1980. The influence of weather conditions on the detection of birds during Common Birds Census fieldwork. Bird Study 27 : 137-151 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063658009476672)
O'Connor, R.J., Seed, R. & Boaden, P.J.S. 1980. Resource space partitioning by the Bryozoa of a Fucus serratus L. community. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 45 : 117-137
Seed, R. & O'Connor, R.J. 1980. Shell shape and seasonal changes in population structure in Lasaea rubra (Bivalvia, Erycinidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 46 : 66-73
Spencer, R. 1980. Male Blue Tit accompanying sick female. British Birds 73
Spencer, R. & Hudson, R. 1980. Report on bird-ringing for 1979. Ringing & Migration 3 : 65-108
Dunstone, N. & O'Connor, R.J. 1979. Optimal foraging in an amphibious mammal. I The aqualung effect. Animal Behaviour 27 : 1 182-1 194 View Abstract
Fuller, R.J. & Youngman, R.E. 1979. The utilisation of farmland by Golden Plovers wintering in southern England. Bird Study 26 : 37-46 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476615)
Fuller, R.J., Wilson, R.J. & Coxon, P. 1979. Birds of the Outer Hebrides: the waders. Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh 77B : 419-430
Hudson, R. 1979. Nightingales in Britain in 1976. Bird Study 26 : 204-212 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476641)
Hughes, S.W.M., Bacon, P. & Flegg, J.J.M. 1979. The 1975 census of the Great Crested Grebe in Britain. Bird Study 26 : 213-226 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476642)
Marchant, J.H. & Hyde, P.A. 1979. Population changes for waterways birds, 1974-78. Bird Study 26 : 227-238 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476643)
Mead, C.J. 1979. Colony fidelity and interchange in the Sand Martin. Bird Study 26 : 99-106 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476625)
Mead, C.J. 1979. Mortality and causes of death in British Sand Martins. Bird Study 26 : 107-112 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476626)
Mead, C.J. & Harrison, J.D. 1979. Overseas movements of British and Irish Sand Martins. Bird Study 26 : 87-98 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476624)
Mead, C.J. & Harrison, J.D. 1979. Sand Martin movements within Britain and Ireland. Bird Study 26 : 73-86 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476623)
Mead, C.J., North, P.M. & Watmough, B.R. 1979. The mortality of British Grey Herons. Bird Study 26 : 13-22 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476611)
Morgan, R.A. 1979. Sand Martin nest record cards. Bird Study 26 : 129-132 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476630)
O'Connor, R.J. 1979. Egg weights and brood reduction in the European Swift Apus apus. Condor 81 : 133-145
O'Connor, R.J., Seed, R. & Boaden, P.J.S. 1979. Effects of environment and plant characteristics on the distribution of Bryozoa in a Fucus serratus L. community. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 38 : 151-178 View Abstract
Prater, A.J. 1979. Shorebird census studies in Britain. Book title: Shorebirds in Marine Environments. Cooper Ornithological Society, Berkeley, California : 157-166
Prater, A.J. 1979. Trends in accuracy of counting birds. Bird Study 26 : 198-200 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657909476638)
Prater, A.J. 1979. Winter numbers and distribution of the Greenshank. Book title: Greenshanks. T. & A.D. Poyser, Berkhamsted : 200-208
Reynolds, C.M. 1979. The heronries census: 1972-1977 population changes and a review. Bird Study 26 : 7-12
Spencer, R. & Hudson, R. 1979. Report on bird-ringing for 1978. Ringing & Migration 2 : 161-208
Stafford, J. 1979. The national census of heronries in England and Wales in 1964. Bird Study 26
Atkinson, N.K., Davies, M. & Prater, A.J. 1978. The winter distribution of Purple Sandpipers in Britain. Bird Study 25 : 223-228 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657809476600)
Batten, L.A. 1978. The seasonal distribution of recoveries and causes of Blackbird mortality. Bird Study 25 : 23-32 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657809476571)
Fuller, R.J. 1978. Breeding populations of Ringed Plovers and Dunlins in the Uists and Benbecula, Outer Hebrides. Bird Study 25 : 97-102 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657809476580)
Fuller, R.J. & Glue, D.E. 1978. Seasonal activity of birds at a sewage-works. British Birds 71 : 235-244
Holdsworth, M., Hudson, R., Magee, J.D. & Prater, T. 1978. The Birds of Tring Reservoirs. Natural History Society, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
Marchant, J.H. 1978. Bird population changes for the years 1976-77. Bird Study 25 : 245-252 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657809476603)
Morgan, R.A. 1978. Changes in the breeding bird community at Gibraltar Point, Lincolnshire, between 1965 and 1974. Bird Study 25 : 51-58 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657809476574)
Peirce, M.A. & Mead, C.J. 1978. Haematozoa of British birds. III. Spring incidence of blood parasites of birds from Hertfordshire. Journal of Natural History 12 : 337-340 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00222937800770181)
Prater, A.J. 1978. The effect of estuarine engineering schemes on birds. Hydrobiological Bulletin 12 : 322-332
Prater, A.J. & Davies, M. 1978. Wintering Sanderlings in Britain. Bird Study 25 : 33-38 Link to Article (DOI: 10.1080/00063657809476572)
Sage, B.L. & Vernon, J.D.R. 1978. The 1975 national survey of rookeries. Bird Study 25 : 64-86
Spencer, R. & Hudson, R. 1978. Report on bird ringing for 1976. Ringing & Migration 1 : 189-252
Spencer, R. & Hudson, R. 1978. Report on bird ringing for 1977. Ringing & Migration 2 : 57-104

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