Common Standards Monitoring Guidance for Birds
(2004)
JNCC
Summary

This
chapter deals with Common Standards Monitoring (CSM) for birds on
designated sites, including SSSIs, Special Protection Areas (SPAs)
and Ramsar sites. It provides guidance on the identification of
attributes, targets and methods of assessment for birds where these
are notified or qualifying interest features.
The conservation objectives for birds in designated sites are
determined by the legislative background to the designations in
place. They are effectively aimed at maintaining bird populations,
or the diversity of species within defined assemblages, both
through the protection of the habitats supporting them and
management against the negative impacts of disturbance. The
attribute tables in this guidance list targets that should be used
to aid in monitoring whether conservation objectives are being met
for each of the interest features on a site.
Generic guidance tables are provided for three categories of
feature types: aggregations of breeding birds, assemblages of
breeding birds, and aggregations of non-breeding birds.
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Please cite as: JNCC, (2004), Common Standards Monitoring Guidance for Birds, Version August 2004, ISSN 1743-8160