Publications for Will Kirby
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
Double-brooding and renesting in British Hawfinches
First confirmed case of two successfully fledged Hawfinch broods by the same female in a single season. Includes details of Hawfinch breeding ecology derived by following radio-tagged females across five breeding seasons in England and Wales and a literature review of previous records relating to Hawfinch nesting.
- Date
- 04 March 2019
- RSPB Authors
- Will Kirby, Andrew Stanbury, Paul Bellamy
- Authors
- Kirby, Will Stanbury, Andrew Bellamy, Paul Lewis, Jerry
- Published in
- British Birds
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
Breeding season habitat associations and population declines of British Hawfinches Coccothraustes coccothraustes
Capsule: At both landscape and local scales, breeding persistence in a declining Hawfinch population was greatest where broadleaved woodland cover was high, while at a fine scale, nest sites were associated with openings in the woodland canopy.
- Date
- 03 June 2015
- RSPB Authors
- Will Kirby, Paul Bellamy
- Authors
- Kirby, W.B., Bellamy, P.E., Stanbury, A.J., Bladon, A.J., Grice, P.V. & Gillings, S.
- Published in
- Bird Study
Supplementary feeding of mealworms enhances reproductive success in garden nesting House Sparrows Passer domesticus
Mealworm provisioning increased clutch size and chick survival in garden-nesting house sparrows. We tested experimentally whether invertebrate availability limits reproductive success in garden-nesting house sparrows Passer ...
- Date
- 09 June 2014
- RSPB Authors
- Dr Will Peach, Will Kirby
- Authors
- Peach, W.J., Sheehan, D.K. & Kirby, W.B.
- Published in
- Bird Study
Breeding ecology of yellow wagtails Motacilla flava in an arable landscape dominated by autumn-sown crops
Yellow wagtails successfully raised two consecutive broods in landscapes dominated by autumn sown crops and did not require spring crops or fallow plots for later nesting.
- Date
- 08 August 2012
- RSPB Authors
- Will Kirby, Dr Guy Anderson, Dr Will Peach
- Authors
- Kirby, W.B., Anderson, G.Q.A., Grice, P.V., Soanes, L., Thompson, C. & Peach, W.J.
- Published in
- Bird Study
Conservation tillage encourages early breeding by skylarks Alauda arvensis
Capsule Increased crop residue on the soil surface, left as a result of conservation tillage, encouraged earlier nesting in winter wheat fields.
- Date
- 01 January 2007
- RSPB Authors
- Dr Rob Field, Dr Richard Bradbury, Will Kirby
- Authors
- Field, R. H. and colleagues
- Published in
- Bird Study
Farmland birds and resource protection in the UK: Cross-cutting solutions for multi-functional farming?
Farmland bird declines in Europe are well documented. In the UK, agri-environment schemes are key mechanisms for reversing the declines of birds and other farmland biodiversity, but recent reviews...
- Date
- 06 January 2006
- RSPB Authors
- Dr Richard Bradbury, Will Kirby
- Authors
- Bradbury, R.B. & Kirby, W.B.
- Published in
- Biological Conservation
Territory and nest-site habitat associations of spotted flycatchers Muscicapa striata breeding in central England
The spotted flycatcher Muscicapa striata is a Red Listed Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) Priority Species, which is declining dramatically across all habitats in the UK; the population fell by 75% from 1974 to 1999 (Gregory et al. 2002)...
- Date
- 30 March 2005
- RSPB Authors
- Will Kirby, Dr Richard Bradbury
- Authors
- Kirby, W., Black, K., Pratt, S. & Bradbury, R.
- Published in
- Ibis
Survival rates, causes of failure and productivity of Skylark
This paper analyses data from 995 Skylark Alauda arvensis nests found on lowland farms in southern England from 1996 to 1998. The majority of recorded nest failures were caused by predation.
- Date
- 01 January 2002
- RSPB Authors
- Dr Paul Donald, Dr David Buckingham, Will Kirby
- Authors
- Donald, P. F. and colleagues
- Published in
- Ibis