The
atlas was developed by LPO, SEOF and the National Natural History Museum in
Paris. Photo: LPO
By Sanya
Khetani-Shah, Thu, 29/10/2015 - 14:49
An
‘atlas’ of birds – which shows the status and distribution of species according
to their breeding, wintering and migration across a city, region, country or
continent – is important, not only as a catalogue for further scientific
research, but also to show the decline in biodiversity over the years.
This
is why France has had two national atlases of bird species, one published in
1975 and the second in 1989. But since then, bird species distribution in
France has significantly changed.
To
present the state of bird populations as well as the places of their evolution
since the last atlas, especially in a time when the EU is grappling with its
2020 biodiversity strategy, a new edition of the French bird atlas will be published on November 12.
The
atlas was developed by LPO (BirdLife in
France) and SEOF (The Ornithological Society of Studies
of France) with the
scientific collaboration of the National Natural History Museum, Paris. The
Atlas sums up 357 contemporary detailed monographs and three sub-species that
breed or winter in France in 1.400 pages spread over two volumes. They are
illustrated by over 700 photographs of birds and 1.500 maps of historical and
current distributions, and abundance.
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