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Article: Regional wild bird populations in England.
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- M2 Presswire
- Article date:
- June 11, 2002
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M2 PRESSWIRE-11 June 2002-UK Government: Regional wild bird populations in England (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Between 1970 and 1999, the population index of farmland birds declined significantly in all four of the English regions for which sufficiently reliable information is available. Over the same period for woodland birds there were increases in the index for five out of eight regions but falls in the South East, South West and East regions.
These results are reported in Regional Wild Bird Indicators in England, a DEFRA statistical publication reporting on a set of provisional regional farmland and woodland bird ...