R: Bird measurements from British islands

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## Bird measurements from British islands

### Description

Measurements on breedings pairs of landbird species were collected from 16 islands about Britain over several decades.

### Usage

    birdextinct

### Format

A data frame with 62 observations on the following 5 variables.

species

  name of bird species

time

  average time of extinction on the islands

nesting

  average number of nesting pairs

size

  size of the species, 1 or 0 if large or small

status

  staus of the species, 1 or 0 if resident or migrant

### Source

Pimm, S., Jones, H., and Diamond, J. (1988), On the risk of extinction, American Naturalists, 132, 757-785.

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