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A Conservation Strategy for Ireland's Birds News and comment compiled by Bob Scott and Mike Everett A conservation strategy for Ireland's birds THE IRISH WH.DBIRD CONSERVANCY, in conjunction with the Irish government's Office of Public Works and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, has produced a Conservation Strategy for Birds in Ireland. This follows on from the RSPB's Strategy for the UK, focusing on the most- threatened species and their relationships to various habitat types. The similarities between the two documents are many, but the conclusions are slightly different, as is to be expected when the geographical unit of Ireland is divorced from Great Britain. This also puts Northern Ireland in die unique position of having two strategies (UK and Ireland) which have to be dovetailed together! The twelve most-mreatened breeding species are Common Scoter Mehmtta nigra. Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus, Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus, Grey Partridge Perdix perdix, Common Quail Cotumix coturnix, Corn Crake Crex crex, European Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria, Northern Lapwing Varwllus vanellus, Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii, Barn Owl Tyto alba, European Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus and Corn Bunting Miliaria cakmdra. This assessment omits sporadic breeding species such as Red-throated Diver Gavia stellata and Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypokuca, which are under tfireat only through rarity. The five most- threatened habitats for breeding birds are lowland wet grassland, machair, bogs, fens and waterside vegetation and non-intensive grassland. Other habitats, such as turloughs, are highly threatened, but do not have the ornithological importance to bring them into the list of priorities. The document also clearly highlights the importance of Ireland's Red-billed Choughs Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax, wintering waterfowl and breeding seabirds, as well as direats to habitats for wintering birds, such as intertidal flats, salt- marsh and other coastal regions. {Contributed by Dave Allen) Project Halmahera This year, the In Focus County Bird Race and BirdLife International is working with the In­ the British Birdwatching Fair are both raising donesian Government to set up two protected money for BirdLife International's Project areas on Halmahera -although the authorities Halmahera. Halmahera, a small island in In­ are keen to do this, they lack sufficient re­ donesia, is one of the top world bird-conserva­ sources. Project Halmahera is an opportunity tion priorities. About the size of East Anglia, for British birders to make a fantastic contribu­ together with a few small nearby islands, it is tion to the conservation of one of the world's home to an almost unbelievable 26 species of true bird hot-spots. birds that are found nowhere else in the world. This year's British Birdwatching Fair is If the forest here gents, so do 26 bird species, being held at Rutland Water, on 19th-21st Au­ lost to die world for ever. gust. 238 News and comment 239 Some new discoveries—spiders, birds and monkeys In our never-ending search to bring you news forest of Tanzania. What makes this partridge­ of additions to various lists, be they British or like bird particularly interesting is its apparent world, here are some goodies for you: relationship with similar species in Asia, rather New to Britain: Coleosoma blandwn, a small than those of Africa. tropical spider first described from a male New to the World: Two for the price of specimen from Sri Lanka. Worldwide it is now one—both primates and both from the tropi­ located in such tropical areas as Malaysia and cal forests of Brazil. Both species have a very the Seychelles. In July 1993, however, in leaf limited distribution and very little is known litter beneath the oaks of Queen's Wood, concerning either species. The Black-headed Highgate, London, an adult female was Marmoset Callithrix nigriceps has one of the trapped. There is little doubt that man has smallest geographical ranges for any Amazo­ been closely associated with its new locality, nian monkey, and its future is most precarious. but such niceties seem less important to arach- It is formally classified as 'endangered', as is nologists than to birders. the other new species, Ka'apor Capuchin Cebus New to the World: Xenoperdix udzunguoen.su, kaapori. Present evidence is that this is the more not only a new species but a new genus as widely distributed of the two species, and, in­ well. And it is a bird. Not established by some deed, may have been much more numerous museum splitter, but discovered by a group of before extensive deforestation. Danish ornithologists working in the montane Site designations in the balance Birding goes soft? KngHsh Nature, one of the Government's na­ Many of us arc old enough to remember the ture conservation advisers, has proposed the times when a visit to a bird observatory was a designation of the Northumberland Shore and chilly experience, shivering through die night the Teesmouth and Cleveland Coast as Special as the tilley lamps were pumped, and the Protection Areas under the EC's Birds Direc­ evening meal was prepared on the primus tive. The Department of the Environment has stove. Oh, how things have changed! The received a number of objections from sea- latest news to reach us is that at Dungeness anglers concerned about bait-digging, but no Bird Observatory, Kent, not only are the letters in support. At the time of writing, the shower, freezer, washing-machine, electric date for comments has passed and the even­ stoves and similar equipment well in place, but tual outcome is, therelbre, in the balance. We central heating is now added. Will there be shall keep you informed. any mid-winter birding from now on? Nightjar news New warden for Cape Clear Vaurie's Nightjar Caprimulgus cenlralasicus was Although bird observatories in general have known only from a single specimen taken in experienced a trough in terms of visitor western China in 1929. Then came the news, numbers, interest in the Republic's only bird not known to the Western world until 1993, observatory remains strong. Perhaps it is the that 'several1 specimens had been collected by renowned social scene and the friendliness of Chinese ornithologists from Beijing University the islanders that brings birders back, though in 1975, the collection site being only some we suspect that Cape's record for seabird 250 km from the original record. News has, passage and October rarities has an effect. unfortunately, just been passed on that the The Council of CCBO is delighted to specimens in fact refer to the European Night­ appoint Alan D'Alton as Warden for the 1994 jar C. eiiropaeus so it is back to being the season. Alan has been a regular visitor to Cape rarest of all, just a single record. since his teenage days and is particularly Good news, however, of another nightjar, interested in sketching the island's avifauna Satanic Eared-nightjar Eurostopodus diabolicus. during his stay- ~he was formerly employed as Confined to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a graphic artist in his native Dublin. For the species had not been seen since 1931. Now information on bookings write to K. Grace, 84 comes news that members of a KmgBird Tour Dorney Court, Shankill, Co. Dublin. have seen what may well have been this {Contributed by Oran O'Sullwan) species in the Lore lindu National Park. 240 News and comment Bluebirds over . New date for OBC meeting A splendid little leaflet entitled 'Birdwatchins The Oriental Bird Club's Manchester meeting in White Cliffs Country', written by Pett will take place on 18th June (not 25th June), at Findley and illustrated by John Hollyer, tell: the United Reform Church, Elm Road, you where to go birchvatching in the Dovei Gatley, near Manchester, Details from the area. For a copy, telephone the White Cliff: Meetings Officer, OBC, c/o The Lodge, Countryside Project on Dover (0304) 241806. Sandy, Bedfordshire SG19 21)1,. Weather service for ornithologists When is just the right time to head for the east tures and full explanatory text for 'all bird en­ coast, or St Ives Bay, or Dungeness? We all thusiasts'. Different numbers will give you know just what a critical part the weather satellite images, national weather situation, or plays in what birds will be where and when. A a five-day outlook (either nationally or in one new service, introduced by Telephone of seven regions). The calls are charged at 36p Information & Services and the Meteorological per minute cheap rate and 48p per minute at Office, may well help plan the weekend's other times. A satellite image, with very fine venue. The new system is called 'Weathercall detail, takes some six minutes to be transmit­ Fax', but to take part you need ready access to ted—some £3.00 a time. It is an interesting a fax machine. Set up with this extra piece of idea, but somehow we cannot believe that technology (one presumes you already have a birders will be the major users of the system. telephone, pager and assorted electronic gad- Perhaps we shall be proved wrong? Further in­ getry), a simple call will deliver to your fax formation from TIS, London (071) 975-9000. machine a hard copy of charts, satellite pic­ Stanley Cramp Seabirds in Iberia Stanley Cramp, who died in 1987, was Apparendy the final count for the number of acknowledged as having devoted a lifetime breeding pairs of Audouin's Gulls Larus to ornithology {Brit. Birds 85: 387-414) with a audouinii in the Ebro Delta colony, Spain, in close association with this monthly journal. 1993, was a staggering 9,360. Andy Paterson Further acknowledgment to Stanley now exists tells us that this, and lots more data on the sta­ in a newly described subspecies of the Fan- tus of Iberian seabirds, will be published in tailed Raven Corvus rhipidums slanleyi (Dutch May 1994.
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