List of abbreviations
To avoid too much repetition, several abbreviations are used extensively throughout the book.
‘The county’ | Cheshire and Wirral |
‘twenty years ago’ | Used to refer to our First Atlas period, 1978-84 |
‘national population index’ | Figures calculated by the BTO from various annual breeding surveys, published as Baillie et al 2007 |
First Atlas | The first breeding bird atlas of Cheshire and Wirral, 1978-84 (Guest, J.P., Elphick, D., Hunter, J.S.A. & Norman, D. (1992) The Breeding Bird Atlas of Cheshire and Wirral. Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society). |
BTO Second Atlas | The BTO national breeding bird atlas, 1988-91; The New Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1988-1991. Gibbons, D.W., Reid, J.B. & Chapman, R.A. (eds) T & A D Poyser, London (1993) |
BTO Winter Atlas | The BTO national wintering bird atlas, 1981/ 82 – 1983/ 84; The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland. Lack, P.C. (ed) T & A D Poyser, Calton (1986) |
Migration Atlas | The Migration Atlas: movements of the birds of Britain and Ireland. Wernham, C.V., Toms, M.P., Marchant, J.H., Clark, J.A., Siriwardena, G.M. & Baillie, S.R., eds. T & A D Poyser, London (2002) |
BWP | Birds of the Western Palearctic, volumes I-IX, ed. Cramp, S. et al, (1977-1994), Oxford University Press. |
HBW | Handbook of Birds of the World, volumes I-XII, ed. del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Christie, D.A. & Sargatal, J. (1992-2007), Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. |
CWBR | Cheshire and Wirral Bird Report or Cheshire Bird Report |
Coward | Coward, T.A. (1910) The Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay. Witherby, London. |
Hardy | Hardy, E. (1941) The Birds of the Liverpool Area. Buncle, Arbroath. |
Boyd | Boyd, A.W. (1951) A Country Parish. Collins New Naturalist, London. |
Bell | Bell, T.H. (1962) The Birds of Cheshire and (1967) A Supplement to The Birds of Cheshire. Sherratt, Altrincham. |
CAWOS | Cheshire and Wirral Ornithological Society |
BBS | Breeding Bird Survey |
ELS | (Environmental Stewardship) Entry Level Scheme |
WeBS | Wetland Bird Survey |
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology |
RSPB | Royal Society for Protection of Birds |
SPA | Special Protection Area under the European Birds Directive |
SSSI | Site of Special Scientific Interest |
WeBS | Wetland Bird Survey |