Andrew Stanbury

The risk of extinction for birds in Great Britain

Over the last 20 years, species priorities for bird conservation in the UK have been guided by the in-depth 'Birds of Conservation Concern' assessments. For other wildlife, priorities tend to be informed by measures of extinction risk, generated by the IUCN Regional Red List process

Date

02 January 2017

RSPB Authors

Andrew Stanbury, Dr Mark Eaton, Prof Richard Gregory

Authors

Stanbury, Andrew Brown, Andy Eaton, Mark Aebischer, Nicholas Gillings, Simon Hearn, Richard Noble, David Stroud, David Gregory, Richard Powell, Dan

Published in

British Birds 110: 502-517.

The State of Nature 2019

The State of Nature report 2019 presents an overview of how wildlife is faring in the UK and its Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. Additionally, it assesses the pressures that are acting on nature, and the responses being made, collectively, to counter these pressures

Date

07 October 2019

RSPB Authors

Dr Daniel Hayhow, Dr Mark Eaton, Dr Fiona Burns, Andrew Stanbury, Will Kirby, Dr Joelene Hughes

Authors

Hayhow, Daniel Eaton, Mark Burns, Fiona Stanbury, Andrew Kirby, Will Bailey, Neil Beckmann, Björn C. Bedford, Jacob Boersch-Supan, Philipp Coomber, Frazer Dennis, Emily Dolman, Sarah Dunn, Euan Hall, Jonathan Harrower, Colin Hatfield, Jack Hawley, Jenny Haysom, Karen Hughes, Joelene Symes, Nigel

Prioritising islands in the United Kingdom and crown dependencies for the eradication of invasive alien vertebrates and rodent biosecurity

Invasive alien vertebrates (IAVs) pose a significant threat to island biodiversity worldwide, and their removal is an important nature conservation management goal. As methods advance, eradications from larger islands and of multiple species simultaneously are increasingly undertaken. Effective targeting to maximise...

Date

01 February 2017

RSPB Authors

Dr Mark Eaton, Dr Steffen Oppel

Authors

Stanbury, A., Thomas, S., Aegerter, J., Brown, A., Bullock, D.J., Eaton, M., Lock, L., Luxmoore, R., Roy, S., Whitaker, S. & Oppel, S.

Published in

European Journal of Wildlife Research 63

Nest survival, causes of failure and productivity of British Hawfinches Coccothraustes coccothraustes

Capsule: Nest success rate of Hawfinches Coccothraustes coccothraustes within our study areas averaged 36% across five seasons, a level unlikely to be driving population declines and considerably higher than was suggested by recent estimates from the long-term Nest Record Scheme.Aims: To investigate potential habitat correlates...

Date

03 September 2018

RSPB Authors

Will Kirby, Andrew Stanbury, Paul Bellamy

Authors

Kirby, W.B., Stanbury, A.J., Lewis, J., Smith, D.L., Cross, A.V., Grice, P.V. & Bellamy, P.E.

Published in

Bird Study 65 (3): 279-289

Changes in the abundance and distribution of a montane bird, the Dotterel, in the UK over 25 years

Capsule: The number of Dotterel breeding in the UK declined by 57% between 1987/88 and 2011, from 980 to 423 breeding males; there has been a contraction of the species’ geographical range as well as declining numbers on core sites.

Date

22 September 2015

RSPB Authors

Dr Daniel Hayhow, Dr Steven Ewing, Dr Mark Eaton

Authors

Hayhow, D.B., Ewing, S.R., Baxter, A., Douse, A., Stanbury, A., Whitfield, D.P. & Eaton, M.A

Published in

Bird Study