Production of smoothed population trends when a key year of data is missing.

Author(s): Noble, D.G. & Gillings, S.

Published: April 2023 Issue No.: 748

Publisher: British Trust for Ornithology Pages: 12pp

ISBN: 9781912642434

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Prompted by the impact of Covid lockdown on fieldwork activity in 2020, this report assesses the impact on the direction and statistical confidence in the trends when a key year of Breeding Bird Survey data is missing.

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David Noble

Head & Principal Ecologist

Simon Gillings

Principal Data Scientist

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