CONTENTS:

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN ORNITHOLOGISTS UNION
PART III

SOREN SVENSSON
European bird monitoring: geographical scales and sampling strategies
Key words: birds, bird monitoring

DAVID W. GIBBONS
Development of pan-european breeding bird monitoring
Key words: bird monitoring, pan-European, monitoring schemes

RICHARD D. GREGORY
Development of breeding bird monitoring in the United Kingdom and adopting its principles elsewhere
Key words: breeding bird monitoring, sampling strategy, survey method, survey design, randomisation

TIBOR SZEP, DAVID W. GIBBONS
Monitoring of common breeding birds in Hungary using a randomised sampling design
Key words:

VLADIMIR A. PAYEVSKY
Demographic studies of migrating bird populations: the aims and the possibilities
Key words: bird ringing, migrating populations, population dynamics, demographic studies

LORENZO FORNASARI, LUCIANO BANI, LUCIANA BOTTONI, ELISABETTA DE CARLI, RENATO MASSA
Empirical procedures to identify migratory bird bottlenecks in the Alpine area
Key words: migratory bottlenecks, bird ringing, Lombardy, northern Italy

REUVEN YOSEF, LORENZO FORNASARI, ANNA GIORDANO
Soaring migrants and the 1% principle
Key words: IBA, conservation, migration routes, 1% principle, bottlenecks, soaring birds, Israel