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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:24:58 +1100
Dear All,

For those that may be into raptors,.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford

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In remembrance of R. D. (Robin) Chancellor  (* 24 October 1921 - † 27
October 2010) WWGBP has started to digitise it's bird of prey volumes and to provide them free of charge for all interested persons as PDF download data on the WWGBP website; indeed, "Eagle Studies", "Holarctic Birds of Prey" and
"Birds of Prey Bull. No. 4" are already available.

The following volume has now been posted to the website

www.Raptors-International.org

B.-U. Meyburg & R. D. Chancellor (eds.) 1989
RAPTORS IN THE MODERN WORLD
Proceedings of the 3rd  World Conference on Birds of Prey and Owls
WWGBP, Berlin, London and Paris
ISBN 3-9801961-0-0,   612 pp.

"The editors of this conference proceedings are to be congratulated for
such an excellently produced, interesting and attractive volume. It is packed
with information, containing 72 papers in 8 sections by 112 authors
from 27
countries, and concluding with the 12 resolutions passed by the
conference.
Like all conference proceedings, the papers are varied in scope and
content,
ranging from little more than abstracts, to some fairly weighty ones
with
new information or synthesis.

The first section covers 'Raptors on migration and wintering grounds', a
particularly difficult aspect of their annual cycle to study, but many of the 19 papers are simply lists of raptors migrating through, or wintering in,
different areas. The next 3 sections are 'Population biology and
breeding' (a
very meaty series of 10 papers, including Sparrowhawk (Newton), Golden Eagle
(Watson & Langslow), Kestrel (Village) and Osprey (Poole)), and the
biology
and conservation of rare diurnal raptors (14 papers) and owls (10
papers).

The 11 papers of section 5 considering 'Raptors in Polluted
Environments'
cover fluorosis, lead, mercury and PCBs but the main emphasis is still on organochlorine pesticides. A very important paper by Davies & Randall shows how
eggshell thinning in the African Fish Eagle is correlated with DDT
levels
in southern African watersheds which, in turn, is associated with
differing
levels of cotton production. Furthermore, they have shown that inland
eggshells are naturally thinner than those from marine areas, thus
casting doubts
on previous investigations of eggshell thinning that have failed to
take this
into account. Another paper (Furness et al.) shows how Golden Eagles
that
feed on seabirds in western Scotland accrue high pollutant burdens and suffer
low reproductive success.

Three short sections on habitat analysis and census techniques (4
papers),
promotion of legislation (4), and education in raptor conservation (10
abstracts) conclude an important worldwide contribution to raptor
research and
conservation."

Humphrey Crick (Review in Bird Study, 37, 1990, p.70)

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