Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean: Profiles of selected islands: By Timothy H. Johnson. International Council for Bird Preservation Monograph No. 1, 1988. 144 pp. ISBN 0 946888 14 0. Price: £7·80

Joseph Robison Murphy was born 14 June 1925 in Salt Lake City, Utah and died of complications from prostate cancer in Yorba Linda, California, 17 June 1992. Joe spent most of his early life in Long Beach, California. His early college education was at Brigham Young University and it was there, after a Ph.D. from and a teaching stint at the University of Nebraska (1951-1960), that he spent most of his professional life. He served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater at Okinawa during World War II. Joe was trained as an ecologist. His dissertation work was on the fauna and flora of hot sulphur pools in Yellowstone National Park. It was in the Park, working as a ranger-naturalist (1950-63), and as a seasonal summer ranger at Grand Teton National Park (1987-1991), that Joe was really in his element. His easy manner with people, his deep booming voice, his extemporaneous speaking ability, and his ability to lead discussions made him a favorite not only in the parks but with colleagues and students. Joe was among the most widely read of academics I have met. While he was not a Renaissance man in every sense of the word, he did give those who were a run for their money. He could discuss history, steam locomotives, Middle Eastern politics, and biology with equal ease and knowledge. His courses in the history of biology and human anatomy were exceptional and popular. Some of Joe's early ornithological publications concerned colonial nesting birds and the Bald Eagle in Yellowstone Park. Perhaps it was as a result of the Bald Eagle work that Joe's research emphasis shifted mainly to raptors. Most of his 20 or so graduate students worked on raptors, particularly the Bald Eagle. He served as president of The Raptor Research Foundation from 1975 to 1978, and as an editor of the journal of Raptor Research. He became an Elective Member of the AOU in 1985. He also served as the North American Secretary for the World Working Group on Birds of Prey, International Council on Bird Preservation, for several years in the 1970s. One of his last ornithological contributions (Condor 89:205-229, 1987) stemmed from his membership on the Scientific Advisory Panel on the Spotted Owl. He collaborated on research projects with many international colleagues, especially those working on eagles in Australia. His many consulting jobs with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service usually revolved around the status of eagles or raptors that were rare, threatened, or endangered. Joe's teaching assignments were as diverse as his knowledge of subjects. He was a favorite among undergraduates. In 1965, he was Honors Professor of the Year, an award given by the University to the outstanding professor teaching in the honors program. In 1967, he received the Maeser Teaching Award, the most prestigious teaching award that Brigham Young University grants. Soon after his early retirement from the University in 1985, his cancer began to give him trouble and he moved to California where he then remarried. He is survived by his wife and five children.

Threatened Birds of Africa and Related Islands The ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book, Part 1 N.J. Collar and S.N. Stuart International Council for Bird Preservation, 1985, £24 ·00, including postage, from ICBP, 219c Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 ODL, UK - Volume 19 Issue 4

International council for bird preservation: Golden jubilee

Fourth meeting of the Asian Continental section of the International Council for Bird Preservation, Bharatpur, India, 2–4 December 1969

Rands, M. 2000. Birdlife International: who we are and where we have come from. Ostrich 71 (1 & 2): 148–149. The International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP)—the forerunner of BirdLife International—was founded in 1922 by a small and dedicated group of individuals. It has grown into a world-wide network of Partner organisations and individuals committed to achieving the conservation of the world's birds and other biological diversity. The evolution and some major achievements of the organisation are outlined, from the early days of ICBP, to the current status of BirdLife International, actively represented in 80 countries world-wide. The BirdLife Vision, the mission of the Partnership, the regional structures and some of the personalities behind the conservation action are presented as the organisation looks forward to the challenge of conserving the world's birds in the 21st century.

The internationalization of conservation activities in the form of organizations is essentially a post-World War I development. The first international initiatives were taken in North America during the first decade of the 20th century, and in 1910 other attempts were made in Europe; but it was not before 1922 that the first truly international conservation organization, the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP), was created. After World War II, ecology evolved rapidly as a discipline and this development led to international cooperation in conservation. U.N. organizations such as FAO and UNESCO became established. In 1948 the latter took the initiative in the creation of IUCN. ICBP founded the International Waterfowl Research Bureau (IWRB), another important organization, and IUCN took the initiative to form in 1961 the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as a fund-raising and public relations organization.

XV World Conference of the International Council for Bird Preservation, De Koog, Texel, Netherlands, 6–11 September 1970

This article discusses two approaches to save the European white stork populations from extinction that emerged after 1980. Despite the shared objective to devise transnational, science-based conservation measures, the two approaches' geographical focus was radically different. Projects by the World Wildlife Fund and the International Council for Bird Preservation focused firmly on the stork's wintering areas on the African continent. Interventions by a second group of ornithologists at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell concentrated on the Middle East as a migration bottleneck. Based on archival research, interviews and correspondence with involved ornithologists, the article examines stork representations as an important lens for investigating the professional politics of ecology and conservation. It shows that representations of white storks, the birds' ecology, and derived conservation hotspots became part of the boundary work used by European ornithologists in the creation of changing scientific and institutional identities.

A 70-acre granite island in the Seychelles with a remarkable bird population, Cousin Island was bought last year for a wildlife reserve by the ICBP (International Council for Bird Preservation) and a warden installed. Tony Beamish, who has made an excellent film of the island's wildlife, describes some of the changes.

Status and Conservation of the World's Seabirds ICBP Technical Publication No. 2 Edited by J.P. Croxall, P. G. H. Evans and R. W. Schreiber International Council for Bird Preservation, 1983, £26·90, including postage, from ICBP, 219c Huntingdon Rd, Cambridge CB3 ODL, UK - Volume 19 Issue 4

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Some important man-caused changes in the distributions of Colombian bird populations are discussed. Examination of the changes is based on a preliminary Blue List of 135 species with declining populations. Canopy frugivores dominate the list, followed by terrestrial and aquatic species, respectively. There are proportionately more highland species on the list than lowland species. Two regions, the central Colombian highlands, and the Cauca-Magdalena lowlands contain more declining species than other avifaunal regions. Almost two-thirds of Colombia's endemic species have been placed on the list. Some species have profited from deforestation or other human activities, and these are discussed. RESUMEN. Se discuten algunos cambios importantes, causados por el hombre, en las distribuciones de poblaciones de aves colombianas. El reconocimiento de los cambios esta basado en la Lista Azul preliminar de 135 especies con poblaciones en disminuci6n. Los frugivoros del tope del bosque dominan la lista, seguidos respectivamente por especies terrestres y acuaticas. Proporcionalmente en la lista hay mas especies de tierras altas que de tierras bajas. Dos regiones, las tierras altas del centro de Colombia y las tierras bajas de Cauca-Magdalena, presentan mas especies en disminucion que otras regiones de avifaunas. Casi dos tercios de las especies endemicas de Colombia estan incluidas en la lista. Se discute tambien la ganancia que obtuvieron otras aves por la deforestation y otras actividades humanas. In this paper I examine changes in the distributions of Colombian bird populations. Olivares (1970) and Lehmann (1970) discussed some effects of environmental change on birds in Colombia and mentioned examples of species that have profited or been harmed by these changes. However, neither author attempted to provide a comprehensive overview of the country's avifauna. Some of Colombia's endangered or threatened species are discussed in the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) Bird Red Data Book (King 1981). Unfortunately, little other information has been compiled on distributional changes of Colombian birds. Furthermore, bird populations in Colombia (or most anywhere in developing regions of the world) are not systematically surveyed or evaluated like they are through the Blue List for North America (Arbib 1971), the Christmas Bird Counts, or more recently the natural heritage inventories of The Nature Conservancy. There is no systematic research on endangered Colombian species either by government or private agencies. In order to examine distributional changes in Colombia's avifauna a preliminary Blue List was prepared. This list is similar in concept to that initiated in North America in 1971 by Robert Arbib (Arbib 1971). The latter list, updated annually, includes North American birds that are of special concern because they appear to be ... giving indications of non-cyclic population decline or range contractions, either locally or widespread (Arbib 1971). Species on the list may be fairly common locally, or even widespread, but because of habitat reduction, chemical contamination, hunting pressure, or other causes, their populations appear to be in decline. As noted by Arbib (1971, 1972) the Blue List is essentially an early warning system that focuses attention on problem species and may help alert the scientific community, government agencies, and the public to situations where action is needed. I include on the present list (Table 1) most species whose geographical ranges in Colombia are believed to have declined by at least 50 percent. Unlike the North American Blue List, I also include all endangered species listed by the ICBP Bird Red Data Book (King 1981) because information on these species is scarce. I exclude species known only from one or a few localities near the Colombian border, or species known only from Bogota specimens without precise locality (Meyer de Schauensee 1 948). I also exclude a considerable number of species whose ranges probably have contracted by 50 percent or more due to deforestation since pre-Colombian times but that still occur commonly wherever tracts of forestland remain. Examples of species in this

Birds to Watch: The ICBP World Check-List of Threatened BirdsN. J. Collar and P. Andrew International Council for Bird Preservation, Technical Publication No. 8, 1988, 303 pp. PB £9.50, including postage from ICBP, 32 Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridge CB3 0PJ, UK - Volume 22 Issue 4

Bird-banding in Japan had been operated since 1924 until 1946 with some interesting results which were analysed by the government staff in Bird and Mammal Bureau of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (cf. literature). It was opened again during 1948 and 1951, but with little success.The new scheme was begun in 1961 under the support of Governmental budget and the center of research was placed in Yamashina Institute. Actual banding has been made by our staff and also by educated banders in 18 prefectures. This new scheme was planned based on a resolution of the Tokyo Congress of the International Council for Bird Preservation (1960), which recommended to the Asian Section the need of international research and protecticn of migratory birds in Asian area.I wish to express hearty thanks to the Forestry Bureau for financial support of this project.This paper is followed by a bibliography of the literature of Japanese bird-banding.

Evidence from a survey conducted by the European Continental Section of the International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP-ECS) suggests that birds have not served as such good early warning indicators of ecological damage from acid precipitation as they have for damage from organochlorine pesticide use. Only a few highly specialized species have been badly affected, and then long after the impact was observed in other organisms. Some birds have even benefited from the superabundance of dead and decaying standing timber.