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<\/a>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n Rare birds, with fewer than 1000 pairs, with increasing populations include the osprey, corncrake, avocet, cirl bunting and stone-curlew \u2013 all birds subject to conservation action.<\/p>\n The declining common birds include the linnet, nightingale, swift, guillemot, starling, house sparrow and red grouse \u2013 all widespread species that are suffering declines for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n Coalition<\/strong><\/p>\n The overview of 210 native breeding birds has been produced by a coalition of conservation organisations, to celebrate the publication of the State of the UK\u2019s Birds report<\/a> which this year enjoys its tenth anniversary.<\/p>\n The report is published by the RSPB<\/a> for a coalition of conservation organisations, including:<\/p>\n Dr Mark Avery, the RSPB\u2019s Conservation Director, said: \u201cOver the last decade we\u2019ve enjoyed some cracking conservation successes, including removing some threatened species from the red list and increasing the populations of red kite, bittern, avocet, osprey, stone-curlew and cirl bunting. However, these triumphs are countered by continued declines of some widespread species, like the skylark, kestrel, willow warbler and grey partridge.\u201d<\/p>\n Targeted conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr David Noble of the British Trust for Ornithology, added: \u201c That some of our rarer birds have responded to targeted conservation action is great news.<\/p>\n It shows just what can be achieved. What we need to do now is to continue the good work and use some of the lessons we have learned to help our more common birds.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr Baz Hughes of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, said: \u201cIt is really encouraging to look back at how concerted effort has improved the status of many wetland birds, not least avocet, bittern and black-tailed godwit. But sadly exceptions like the common scoter \u2013 the UK\u2019s most endangered duck \u2013 still need significant conservation action if we\u2019re going to pull them back from the brink.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tom Tew, Chief Scientist for Natural England, said: \u201cIt is clear that targeted conservation work has made a real difference in reversing the decline of many rare species and that positive land management, often delivered through green farming schemes such as Environmental Stewardship, has had an important part to play. By working closely with farmers and other land managers we need to ensure that these benefits are spread into the wider countryside where more common birds continue to suffer from declines.\u201d<\/p>\n JNCC\u2019s David Stroud said: \u201cThese results remind us that the causes of the declines for many migratory species can often be in other countries. \u00a0For example, Greenland white-fronted geese are declining owing to factors that are restricting its breeding in the Arctic. \u00a0This strongly emphasises the need for UK conservation organisations to collaborate internationally with those in other countries to tackle such issues.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of the key bird conservation stories coming from 10 years of the report include:<\/p>\n Over the last decade, rare birds in the UK have been faring far better than their more common counterparts, according to the latest assessment produced by the UK\u2019s leading conservation organisations. The research shows that almost 60 per cent of the 63 rare birds that breed in the UK have increased over the last ten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,440,41],"tags":[914,864,1453,1459,1466,753,1042,1463,1462,1460,724,1465,749,1041,1457,1461,743,1455,1456,1464],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-birds","category-featured","category-wildlife","tag-avocet","tag-british-trust","tag-cirl-bunting","tag-common-birds","tag-conservation-action","tag-conservation-director","tag-conservation-organisations","tag-corncrake","tag-countryside-council","tag-house-sparrow","tag-joint-nature-conservation-committee","tag-last-decade","tag-mark-avery","tag-rare-birds","tag-red-grouse","tag-red-kite","tag-rspb-images","tag-scottish-natural-heritage","tag-stone-curlew","tag-tenth-anniversary","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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