Birds and Forestry / Mark Avery and Roderick Leslie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Avery, Mark, author.

Leslie, Roderick, author.

Contributor:

Snow, Philip, 1947- illustrator.

Series:

Poyser Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Habitat--Great Britain.

Birds.

Birds--Geographical distribution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : T & AD Poyser, 1990.

Summary:

In this book an ornithologist and a forester have combined their skills to try and tease out the real facts behind the various arguments: Which bird species are really threatened? How can we judge the relative value of bird species ousted by plantations and the new species which colonize them? How can the need for forest products be reconciled with the demands of conservationists? This fascinating book tackles these issues in a forthright manner. It represents a significant step towards achieving the sort of prudent land planning that will really improve our beleaguered countryside. Mark Avery has combined bird watching with a career as a biologist. Since graduating from Cambridge University he has studied at Oxford and Aberdeen Universities and worked on Great Tit song, food-hoarding by Marsh Tits, foraging and social behaviour of Bee-eaters and hibernation of pipistrelle bats. Mark joined the RSPB staff in 1986 to-work in the Flow Country and is now a Senior Research Biologist for the Society working on scientific aspects of land-use, international and marine issues. Roderick Leslie was educated at Rugby and Oxford, where he took a degree in Agriculture and Forest Sciences. Interested in waders, cannon-netting on the Wash and ringing, he joined the Forestry Commission in 1976 and became involved in studies of the birds of second rotation forest, including Nightjar. He has worked in Northumberland, North Yorkshire where he was BTO regional representative, and Thetford. In 1988, following a three-year term as the Forestry Commission's Wildlife and Conservation officer at F.C. Headquarters in Edinburgh, he became the Private Forestry & Environment Officer for the Commission's West of England Conservancy based in Bristol. He was a member of the RSPB Council from 1984-1989. Jacket painting by Philip Snow

Contents:

Cover

Copyright page

Contents

List of photographs

List of figures

List of tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 01 - Introduction

CHAPTER 02 - Birds in forests

CHAPTER 03 - Managing the forest

CHAPTER 04 - Conservation management

CHAPTER 05 - The birds of the uplands

CHAPTER 06 - The effects of afforestation on upland birds

CHAPTER 07 - Case studies

CHAPTER 08 - Money and power in the uplands

CHAPTER 09 - The future

References

Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-289) and index.

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ISBN:

9786612986468

9781282986466

1282986465

9781408137666

1408137666

9781408137673

1408137674

OCLC:

858762980