Amazon.com description: Product Description: Interest in bird conservation is increasingly focused on current and changing distribution in the face of habitat loss and land use changes. The wider countryside and farmland habitats are of particular interest. The recent BTO surveys have made Britain and Ireland the best-mapped countries in the world. The Historical Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1875-1900 is based on research into the County Avifaunas, published in great numbers around the turn of the century. Detailed reading has enabled the author to map the countries' birds in the period ca. 1875 to 1900, at a time before the widespread rise of modern agricultural practice. The book is laid out in the format of the BTO Atlases, with text and maps which provide a valuable baseline for modern conservation biologists and birders. This book is ideal for ornithologists, conservationists, and natural historians.

Key Features
* Contains maps of every species found breeding in Britain and Ireland during 1875-1900
* Describes the past bird species distributions and the factors that influence them
* Provides maps and text based on comprehensive research into the contemporary County Avifaunas
* Insets maps from the first BTO survey for comparison
* Includes notes on recent changes in distribution