A fauna of the Moray basin /

Harvie-Brown, J. A.; Buckley, Thomas E.

doi:10.5962/bhl.title.69239

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“…The principal difference between the countries is a relative absence of White-tailed Eagles from more inland parts of highland Scotland, identified by Love (1983) as the deer-forest range to which Golden Eagles became confined due to the effects of persecution elsewhere. Golden Eagles seem to have been protected on at least some Scottish deer forests (Harvie- Brown & Buckley 1895;Love 1983), possibly because of a perception that their presence improved the quality of deer-stalking by keeping grouse numbers in check, making it less likely that deer would be startled by grouse accidentally flushed during the stalk (Booth 1881-7).…”

Section: Nineteenth-century Distributionmentioning

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“…-1845. By this time, both species of eagles had been almost entirely lost from England and Wales (Lovegrove 2007), so the distributions subsequently compiled from detailed documentary evidence by Harvie-Brown and co-authors (1887, 1888, 1892, 1895, 1904 of the Scottish Vertebrate Fauna series and their Irish contemporaries Ussher & Warren (1900) (with later refinement by Baxter & Rintoul 1953, Love 1983and D'Arcy 1998, should be regarded as absolute minima, greatly reduced and altered from an undocumented former 'natural' state, as a consequence of habitat destruction and persecution (Bijleveld 1974, Lovegrove 2007. This is particularly true for Golden Eagles, with the earlier authors explicitly stating that detailed nesting locations known to them had been disguised or omitted from their published accounts, in order to avoid drawing the attention of collectors.…”

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The history of eagles in Britain and Ireland: an ecological review of placename and documentary evidence from the last 1500 years

Evans

O'Toole²,

Whitfield³

2012

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Capsule The loss of eagles from large tracts of lowland and upland habitat in Britain and Ireland over the last 1500 years is attributed to human activity. Aim To estimate changes in past distribution and population size of Britain and Ireland's two native eagle species. Methods Placenames suggesting the past presence of eagles were categorized according to modern knowledge of the species' ecology. Together with documented historical locations, these sites were mapped to derive approximate former ranges. Population estimates were made for each species at about 500 and 1800 CE.

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Section: Nineteenth-century Distributionmentioning

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The history of eagles in Britain and Ireland: an ecological review of placename and documentary evidence from the last 1500 years

Evans

O'Toole²,

Whitfield³

2012

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“…46 The progressive loss of pine forest must have reduced the range and numbers of Crested Tits. At the end of the 19th century, they were believed to have been restricted to a 50 km length of Strathspey, 15 although a lack of observers may have influenced this pessimistic view. Also, fragmentation of the habitat into 'islands' probably led to local extinctions without subsequent recolonization, given the sedentary nature of Crested Tits.…”

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“…The woodlands in the Moray faunal area, 15 which encompasses the breeding range of the Crested Tit in Scotland, 3 were stratified according to ancient native pinewoods (95 km 2 ), as defined by Peterken, 16 and other woodlands (1920 km 2 ), which were primarily conifer plantations 17 (Fig. 1).…”

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Winter population size and habitat selection of Crested TitsParus cristatusin Scotland

Summers¹,

Mavor²,

Buckland³

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“…For Perthshire, Harvie-Brown (1881) had only three records later than 1860, the latest in 1879, and Millais (1904) quoted a personal record from 1871. Harvie-Brown (1906) later recorded three more Perthshire records in 1896, 1898 and 1899. In Southern Argyll, it became extinct by 1864, but survived in the north and west.…”

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The decline of the rarer carnivores in Great Britain during the nineteenth century

1977

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The literature documenting the decline in distribution of the polecat (Mustelo putorius), Pine marten (Martes martes) and Wild cat (Felis silvestris) in Great Britain during the nineteenth century is surveyed, and a series of maps to illustrate the declines is presented. These highlight the different patterns of decline in the three species, and draw attention to the parallels in certain birds of prey. The declines do not match the decline in woodland, which was largely completed before they began. They do coincide with the development of the sporting estate, and moreover the differences between the species can partly be explained by differences in persecution. 96 P. J. W. Lungley and D. W. Yalden and Wild cat,Felis silvestris. Moore (1957) has documented this decline in one species, the buzzard, and by using maps to portray his information, summarized a large amount of factual data in a most useful and assimilable form. This has prompted us to try to provide similar treatment for the three mammals already mentioned.There are, of course, obvious pitfalls in attempting such a venture; the poor documentation of mammals when compared with birds, the possibilities of confusion, (especially of Wild cat and tabby, or polecat and ferret) and the general uncertainties of whether records isolated in time or geography should be accepted at face value. However, these uncertainties are now historical, and delaying the project will not resolve them. There is, meanwhile, a considerable body of information which is available, though perhaps less and less readily so as time passes. Bringing it together in map form has drawn attention to the remarkable parallels to the situation incertain birds of prey, and to the differences between the three mammals. It also provokes some reexamination of the causes of the decline, which may not be irrelevant to the conservation interests of the present time. SOURCESThe Victoria County Histories (V.C.H.) covering most of the English Counties, together with Harting (1878, 1891a, 1891b), and Millais (1904), provide much information. For Wales, Forrest (1907, 1908, 1921 presented many data, and Matheson (1932) gave a useful summary. For Scotland, similar services were performed by Harvie-Brown and his co-worker Buckley (Harvie-Brown,

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A fauna of the Moray basin /

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The history of eagles in Britain and Ireland: an ecological review of placename and documentary evidence from the last 1500 years

The history of eagles in Britain and Ireland: an ecological review of placename and documentary evidence from the last 1500 years

Winter population size and habitat selection of Crested TitsParus cristatusin Scotland

The decline of the rarer carnivores in Great Britain during the nineteenth century

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