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Titre :	Status and distribution of breeding common scoters Melanitta nigra nigra in Britain and Ireland in 1995 (1998)
Auteurs :	M. C. Underhill, Auteur ; T. Gittings, Auteur ; D. A. Callaghan, Auteur ; B. Hughes, Auteur ; J. S. Kirby, Auteur ; S. Delany, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Bird Study (45 JUL 1998)
Article en page(s) :	146-156
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	The status and distribution of Common Scoters Melanitta nigra nigra in Britain and Ireland were determined from a survey ill April-lune 1995. Three visits were made to all known, and a sample of potential, breeding sires. A total of 439 birds runs located, from which the British and Irish population was estimated at 195 pairs (100 in Ireland, 95 in Britain). In Ireland, three sites held 100 pairs or 51% of the population. In Britain, birds were spread over 61 sites in 23 10-km squares, all in Scotland. Breeding Common Scoters are somewhat more abundant in Britain and Ireland than hitherto thought. However, this is due mainly to comprehensive survey coverage in 1995 and, over the past

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