• Banning lead should not be a toxic issue.
    RSPB's Agriculture Policy Officer, Ellie Crane, is attending the Convention on Migratory Species Conference of the Parties in Quito - vital decisions are in the process of being made - here's a guest...
  • What are the main drivers that affect populations of European mountain and upland bird species?
    In a new guest blog published today, Riccardo Alba , PhD Student at the University of Turin discusses his latest paper . His study looked at which drivers have been most consistently associated with positive...
  • Taking the lead
    On Monday this week I went to court for the first time in my life. No, I hadn’t been up to no good (shockingly), but I was there as an observer for the case of the first man in the UK to be prosecuted...
  • Can we save a migratory vulture population with captive-raised birds?
    A new study shows that supporting a declining population of a migratory vulture with captive-reared young birds every year could delay extinction , and thus afford conservationists more time to reduce...
  • Population changes of common European birds
    Today, the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme ( PECBMS ) network, comprising sixty-six European scientists, has published a landmark paper describing the methods, outputs and their use in research...