'Many Species Have Laid No Eggs'; Rise in Farm Birds Masked by Falls at Sea

The HeraldOctober 22, 2004

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THE disastrous year being ex-perienced by Scottish seabirds may blight an overall improvement in Britain's world bird population announced by the government yesterday.

Global warming has helped some species, particularly woodland birds, to halt a decline over much of the past 30 years, while farmland birds have been helped by changes in agricultural practice.

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'Many Species Have Laid No Eggs'; Rise in Farm Birds Masked by Falls at Sea

However, raised ocean temperatures, and their effects on plankton and sand eels at the start of the food chain, have produced the worst breeding season on record for b...

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