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RAPTORS 
WORLDWIDE 
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Featuring a beautiful painting of the band 
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Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on 
Birds of Prey and Owls 
May 2003, Budapest, Hungary 
Edited by R.D.Chancellor and B.-U. Meyburg 
ISBN 963-86418-1-9 
This volume of 890 pages 
features 81 outstanding refereed 
original papers in English, 
presented by over 150 authors 
from all over the world. It has. an 
extensive section on vultures, 
severely threatened if not already 
extinct in many parts of their 
former range, comprising 12 
papers on different Old and New 
World species and their 
conservation together with eight 
special studies providing a 
comprehensive picture of the 
recent catastrophic decline of 
species in the genus Gyps in 
Southern Asia, particularly India 
and Pakistan, the hitherto 
inexplicable cause of which was 
first revealed during this 
conference. 
Other sections are devoted to such 
wide-ranging topics as Population 
Limitation, Taxonomy, 
Electrocutions, Raptor/Human 
Conflicts and Environmental 
Contaminants. Other special 
sections are devoted to Falcons 
and Eagles respectively, including 
accounts of the unrivalled 
conservation work carried out in 
Hungary on such endangered 
species as the Saker Falcon and 
Imperial Eagle, forming an object 
lesson for other countries. 
TO ORDER RAPTORS 
WORLDWIDE WRITE TO: 
World Working Group on Birds of 
Prey and Owls (WWGBP), P. O. 
Box 52,Towcester NN12 7ZW, 
England 
E-mail: 
robin.chancellor@virgin.net 
www.raptors-international.de 
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