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		<description>the home of birding</description>
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			<title>New website keeps an EYE on the environment</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2096/32/</link>
			<description>
 [Thursday 20 November 2008]



A new website has been launched that
allows nature lovers to record their bird and wildlife sightings
directly onto maps of north-east England.  

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Win a Hilltrek Assynt Cotton Analogy jacket worth £285!</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2090/28/</link>
			<description>
Hilltrek is giving away one of its Assynt Cotton Analogy jacklets. It is a full-length traditionally styled jacket designed for country life and smart enough to wear anywhere.
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			<category>Competitions - magazine and web competitions</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>‘Robohummer’ offers insight into hovering flight</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2088/32/</link>
			<description>
[Tuesday 18 November 2008]



Scientists working on micro air
vehicles (MAVs) have developed a robotic hummingbird to study the
dynamics of hovering.

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:06:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>RSPB fears over new EU plans</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2070/32/</link>
			<description>
[Friday 14 November 2008] 



The RSPB has expressed dismay at EU
plans to sever the link between Common Agricultural Policy payments
and wildlife protection laws.

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>RSPB urges public to oppose Planning Bill</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2069/32/</link>
			<description>
[Thursday November 13 2008]



The RSPB has asked the public to lend
their support to a campaign against the Planning Bill, saying it is
their last chance to avoid losing their voice on environmentally
damaging developments.

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:04:51 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Martin Mere WWT welcomes record brood of swans</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2062/32/</link>
			<description>
[Monday 10 November 2008] 



A pair of Whooper Swans have flown into
Martin Mere WWT with a record number of nine cygnets. 

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Government warned on wildlife protection</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2056/32/</link>
			<description>





[Monday 10 November 2008]



The government is not doing enough to
protect threatened wildlife in England and the UK Overseas
Territories, warns the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) today.
This warning has been echoed by the RSPB, Europe&amp;rsquo;s largest wildlife
conservation charity.


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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Shearwaters increase after rats are removed</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2050/32/</link>
			<description>
[Friday 7 November 2008]



A project to remove
rats from Lundy has seen numbers of the burrow-nesting seabird it set
out to save more than triple. 

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Fears for farmland birds after dramatic decline</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2042/32/</link>
			<description>




[Thursday 6th November]



The government has revealed that the
populations of some countryside birds fell last year to their lowest
levels since 1970. On 31 October DEFRA published data revealing
further declines in the overall numbers of farmland birds across both
England and the wider UK.

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>New world year-listing record set</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2041/32/</link>
			<description>
[Wednesday 5 November 2008]



The world record for the number of bird
species seen in one year has been broken by two birders from north
Wales.

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Trump tramples on SSSI</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2036/32/</link>
			<description>
[Tuesday 4 October 2008] 



Controversial
plans to develop a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in
Aberdeenshire, Scotland, into &amp;ldquo;the world&amp;rsquo;s best golf course&amp;rdquo;
have been given the go-ahead by the Scottish Government. 

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Win a pair of Hawke Frontier ED 10x43 binoculars</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2034/28/</link>
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			<category>Competitions - magazine and web competitions</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>First protected area for rare macaw</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2029/32/</link>
			<description>






 [Monday 3 November 2008]


The Bolivian conservation organisation
Asociaci&amp;oacute;n Armon&amp;iacute;a, with the support of the American
Bird Conservancy and the World Land Trust (US), has created the
world&amp;rsquo;s first protected area for Blue-throated Macaw, a Critically
Endangered species whose population is estimated at just 300 birds. 

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>December events</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2022/150/</link>
			<description>This is a selection of events taking place across Britain and Ireland
in December 2008. It features a daily diary of events, events repeated
throughout the month, courses/workshops and optical demonstration.
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			<category>Events - Events</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>January events</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2025/150/</link>
			<description>This is a selection of events taking place across Britain and Ireland
in January 2009. It features a daily diary of events, events repeated
throughout the month, courses/workshops and optical demonstration.
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			<category>Events - Events</category>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Eagle Owls &quot;are British birds&quot;</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2016/32/</link>
			<description>
[Sunday 2 November 2008]
The Eagle Owl deserves a place on the British Ornithologists' Union's 'full' list of bird species, according to the results of the latest online poll conducted by Birdwatch.

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Wetar Ground-dove ‘rediscovered’</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2013/32/</link>
			<description>
[Saturday 1 November 2008]

The endangered Wetar Ground-dove, one of the world&amp;rsquo;s least known
birds, has been rediscovered on the island after which it is named, says UK
charity Columbidae Conservation.

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Record breeding season at Minsmere</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2009/32/</link>
			<description>
[Friday 31 October 2008]

A record number of bird species bred at Minsmere, Suffolk
this year, despite a poor breeding season for some species, reports the Royal Society
for the Protection of Birds. 

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Rainforest scheme gets royal visitor</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2012/32/</link>
			<description>
[Friday 31 October 2008]

The
Harapan Rainforest project in Sumatra will be having a visit from HRH The
Prince of Wales this Sunday. He will see how logged rainforest on the
Indonesian island of Sumatra is being protected and restored.

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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Seabird breeding season slumps</title>
			<link>http://www.birdwatch.co.uk/website/content/view/2007/32/</link>
			<description>
[Thursday 30 October 2008]

Seabirds breeding in the far north of the UK have had one of
their worst ever breeding season&amp;rsquo;s according to figures released by the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds. 


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			<category>News - Headlines</category>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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