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International Council for Bird Preservation (ICBP) - New Hone 
After camping in Portakabins in a sheep field on the outskirts of 
Cambridge for several years the International Council for Bird 
Preservation (ICBP) has a new and permanent hoae . Their new 
accommodation in the centre of the village of Girton, a few miles 
from their old site, is far laore in keeping with their increasingly 
important role in bird conservation. 'vJhether the bird list gets as 
high on the new as on the 3 id site re-nains to be seen. The new 
address is ICBP, 32 Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridge CB3 OPJ, GreaL 
Britain. The telephone number remains the same: 0223-2 77313. 
Turkey - ICBP European Section Conference; 15-20 May 1989 
The European Section of ICBP will hold its next conference in Adana 
from 15 to 20 May 1989. In addition to the usual business of the 
conference there will be a two-day workshop covering bird 
conservation in Turkey and migratory birds in Africa. Further 
details from DHKD, Pk 18, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey or ICBP, 
32 Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridge CB3 OPJ, Great Britain. 
Second Mediterranean Seabird Symposium 
The symposium will be held in Mallorca from 21 to 26 March 1939 and 
will deal with the status and conservation of seabirds. Speakers 
will be encouraged to concentrate on the population status of a 
single species rather than the birds of a particular location. It 
is hoped to broaden participation to include speakers from the Black 
Sea as well as the Mediterranean. Further details are available 
from Mediterranean Marine Bird Association, 20 rue St-Martin, 75004 
Paris, France. 
Slender-billed Curlew - Conservation Programme 
We have already reported on the plight of the Slender-billed Curlew 
Numenius tenuirostris in the previous two bulletins. We are pleased 
to report that the ICBP have raised the money to support a project 
co-ordinator working three days per week for two years on its 
conservation. While a century ago it was the most abundant wader in 
Italy there may now be only 100 individuals left in the world and it 
Is almost certainly the rarest migratory bird in the Western 
Palearc t ic . 
The nesting area of the Slender-billed Curlew appears to be West 
Siberia, from Omsk to Novosibirsk in the marshy zone just south of 
the Taiga. It then migrates south-west through Turkey, Hungary, 
Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Austria and Italy to winter in Tunisia 
and Morocco. However, there have also been scattered records of the 
species wintering throughout the Middle East. In the last century 
the species wintered in Iran and Iraq and it is not impossible that 
some still winter there. The recent cease-fire offers the first 
opportunity for many years for birdwatchers (perhaps on 
