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• 3 Contents
• 5 Preface
• 7 Conference Photo
  

General Monitoring

• 11 R. D. Gregory, D. Noble, R. Field, J. Marchant, M. Raven, and D. W. Gibbons : Using birds as indicators of biodiversity
• 25 J. R. Sauer: Developing a general conceptual framework for avian conservation science
• 33 C. Stoate, M. Araújo and R.Borralho: Conservation of European farmland birds: abundance and species diversity
• 41 A. Aunins and J. Priednieks: Bird population changes in Latvian farmland, 1995-2000: responses to different scenarios of rural development
• 51 T. Wesolowski: Bird community dynamics in a primaeval forest - is interspecific competition important?
• 63 M. Husby: Point count census using volunteers of terrestrial breeding birds in Norway, and its status after six years
  

Monitoring waterbirds

• 75 M. Kershaw and P. A. Cranswick: Deriving population estimates for wintering wildfowl in Great Britain
• 89 V. Stanevicius: Monitoring of breeding water birds in Lithuania: organisation and sampling designs
• 95 S. Švazas, L. Balciauskas and L. Raudonikis: Lithuanian wetlands database: the tool for bird monitoring and conservation in Lithuanian wetlands
• 105 T. M. Brereton, C. Weir, M. Hobbs and A. D. Williams: A low-cost, year-round seabird monitoring programme in the English channel & Bay of Biscay: preliminary results 1995-2001
• 115 M. J. Hobbs , T. Brereton, C. Weir and A. Williams : Baseline Monitoring data on Procellariformes (Shearwaters) in the Bay of Biscay
  

Monitoring of single species

• 129 N. Schäffer and U. Mammen: International corncrake monitoring
• 135 O. V. Sukhanova and A. L. Mischenko: Monitoring Corncrake Crex crex numbers in European Russia: the first stage
• 143 W. Wettstein and T. Szép: Status of the Corncrake Crex crex as an indicator of biodiversity in eastern Hungary
• 151 O. Keišs: Recent increases in numbers and the future of Corncrake Crex crex in Latvia
• 157 A. Bea, R. Beitia and J. M. Fernández: The census and distribution of wintering woodpigeons columba palumbus in the Iberian peninsula
• 169 T. Szép, Z. Szabó D and J. Vallner: Integrated population monitoring of sand martin riparia riparia - an opportunity to monitor the effects of environmental disasters along the river Tisza
• 183 H. Oelke: Swallow censuses in Northwest Germany (1986,1991 and 1996)
• 191 J.Krogulec and J.Kloskowski: Monitoring Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola in Poland
  

Models and Methods

• 199 J. A. Robinson and P. A. Cranswick: Large-scale monitoring of the effects of human disturbance on waterbirds: a review and recommendations for survey design
• 209 M. J. Steinkamp, B. G. Peterjohn, and J.L. Keisman: Incorporating precision, accuracy and alternative sampling designs into a continental monitoring program for colonial waterbirds
• 217 J.R. Sauer and W. A. Link: Hierarchical models and the analysis of bird survey information
• 223 P. Tryjanowski, M. Hromada, M. Antczak, J. Grzybek, S. Kuzniak and G. Lorek: Which method is most suitable for censusing breeding populations of red-backed (lanius collurio) and great grey (l. Excubitor) shrikes?
• 229 I. Vilka: On the importance of nestbox age in monitoring populations of small hole-nesting birds
  

Short Communications

• 239 J-M. Boutin, D. R. and C. Eraud: Breeding Bird Monitoring in France: The ACT Survey
• 243 G. Aubrecht: Ornithological databases for science and conservation - management and project oriented studies
• 245 D. Callaghan: Pan-European monitoring of Important Bird Areas
• 249 A. Kalvans and O. Keišs: The Breeding Bird Atlas of Jelgava district, Latvia
• 253 H.-G. Bauer, W. Fiedler and H. Stark: Four decades of waterfowl counts at prealpine Lake Constance
• 257 M. Vavoík: 15 years of monitoring of 'large' gull species in central and northern Moravia, Czech Republic
• 263 A. Pellinger: Waterbird-monitoring in the reconstruction habitats in the Lake Fertõ, North-west Hungary
• 267 U. Mammen: No Chance for an European Monitoring of Raptors and Owls?
• 271 I. Kitowski and E. Kisiel: Distribution of Little Owl Athene noctua and Barn Owl Tyto alba in the Zamoœæ Region (SE Poland) in the light of atlas studies
• 275 A. Golawski, Z. Kasprzykowski and M. Kowalski: The occurrence of the Barn Owl Tyto alba in sacred buildings in central-eastern Poland
• 279 I. Kitowski and G. Grzywaczewski: The monitoring of Little Owl Athene noctua in Chelm (SE Poland) in 1998-2000
• 283 B. Houdková and P. Musil: Trends in numbers of the Coot (Fulica atra) in the Czech Republic in 1988-2000
• 289 S. Y. Dalakchieva: Changes in the number of the breeding population of kentish plover charadriius alexandrinus at Atanasovsko lake
• 293 Y. Ferrand, F. Gossmann and C. Bastat : Breeding woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) monitoring in France
• 297 C. Stoate, R. Borralho and M. Araújo: Abundance of Four Lark Species in Relation to Portuguese Farming Systems
• 303 A. Surmacki: Use of playback in estimating number of Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) in non-breeding season

01/09/2004