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Table 2. Habitat composition of 200 metre transect sections within the Breeding Bird Survey 1994.
These figures do not reflect the habitat composition of the UK as a whole as they are not
corrected for regional variation in sampling effort.
Major Habitat
Percentage of transect
sections
Number of transect
sections
Farmland 54.2 8 175
Human Sites 15.7 2 372
Woodland 12.1 1 821
Heathland & Bogs 8.0 1 208
Grassland 5.0 756
Scrubland 2.3 347
Water Bodies 1.7 260
Inland Rock 0.6 83
Coastal 0.4 53
Miscellaneous 0.1 11
TOTAL 100.0 15 086
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank the many BTO volunteers, both fieldworkers and regional organisers who have
contributed to the monitoring programmes discussed in this paper. The CBC and PCP were
supported under a contract from the JNCC (on behalf of English Nature, Countryside Council for
Wales, Scottish Natural Heritage, and under a contract from the Department of the Environment
(Northern Ireland). The project to evaluate sampling strategies was funded by RSPB. The BBS is
jointly funded by the BTO, the JNCC and the RSPB. We are grateful to the members of the BTO's
Integrated Population Monitoring Working Group, Prof. Steve Buckland, Drs. Rhys Green,
Nicholas Aebischer, John Goss-Custard and Dorian Moss for helpful advice. We also thank Drs.
David Stroud, Ken Smith, David Gibbons, Jeremy Greenwood, Will Peach, and Humphrey Crick
for helpful discussion. John Marchant, Dawn Balmer, Andy Wilson, and the late Dr Steve Carter
provided assistance.
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