Birds of Wiltshire contents

Contents

A summarised list of contents is given below 

	Page	….		Page
Foreword	9		Wiltshire ringing totals 1965–2005	739
Introduction	12		Reserves and designated sites	742
Wiltshire’s habitats	28		Appendices
Weather and climate change	63		1. Record cards and instructions for atlas fieldwork	748
Wiltshire’s early birds	68		2. Wiltshire tetrad atlas data	760
Wiltshire’s ornithological history	73		3. Changes in bird distribution 1968–2000	775
Changes in Wiltshire’s birdlife	92		4. Analyses for population estimates	781
Atlas organisation, methods and mapping	98		Gazetteer	790
Calculating population estimates	113		Scientific names of plants and animals	805
The status of birds in Wiltshire	122		Bibliography	808
SPECIES ACCOUNTS	143		Map of Salisbury Plain Training Area	840
Significant additional records 2001–2005	723		Map of Cotswold Water Park	841
Earliest and latest dates of migrants 1900–2005	728		Index of English and scientific names of birds	842
Escapes and introductions	731

Sample pages

Some example pages will be available shortly.

Atlas fieldwork methods

One of the chapters of Birds of Wiltshire, on ‘Atlas organisation, methods and mapping’, describes WOS’s organisation of the tetrad surveys, explaining the methods used and highlighting some of the issues encountered; in particular, it discusses the months for fieldwork and draws attention to certain problems with these.

Many bird clubs and societies are using the opportunity of the current ‘national’ 10-km atlas for Britain & Ireland to undertake tetrad atlases at the county level. We are making the methods chapter available here in the hope that it may be of some help in their planning.

Birds of Wiltshire methods chapter (1.6 Mb)