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RSPB

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Conservation charity
Founded 1889 (1889), Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden, Manchester
Headquarters The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire, England
2 Lochside View, Edinburgh, Scotland
Area served
United Kingdom
Key people
Revenue Increase £88.28 million GBP (2006)
Increase £69.7 million GBP (2006)
Decrease £3.68 million GBP (2006)
Number of employees
Website www.rspb.org.uk
Bird Notes  
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Cover of Autumn 1946 issue of Bird Notes, Vol. 23, No. 3
Discipline Ornithology
Language English
Publication details
Publisher
RSPB (United Kingdom)
Publication history
1903 (1903)-1966
Indexing
ISSN 0406-3392
Birds  
Discipline Ornithology
Language English
Edited by Mark Ward
Publication details
Publisher
RSPB (United Kingdom)
Publication history
1966 (1966)–2013 (2013)
Frequency Quarterly
Indexing
ISSN 1367-983X
Links
Nature's Home  
Discipline Ornithology
Language English
Edited by Mark Ward
Publication details
Publisher
RSPB (United Kingdom)
Publication history
2013 (2013)–present
Frequency Quarterly
Indexing
ISSN 2054-3433
Links

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales and in Scotland. It was founded as the Plumage League in 1889 by Emily Williamson. It works to promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom.

The RSPB has over 1300 employees, 18,000 volunteers and more than 1 million members (including 195,000 youth members), making it the largest wildlife conservation charity in Europe. The RSPB has many local groups and maintains 200 nature reserves.

The Plumage League was founded in 1889 by Emily Williamson at her house in Didsbury, Manchester, (now in Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden), as a protest group campaigning against the use of great crested grebe and kittiwake skins and feathers in fur clothing. The group gained popularity and eventually amalgamated with the Fur and Feather League in Croydon to form the Society for the Protection of Birds. The Society gained its Royal Charter in 1904.

The original members of the RSPB were all women who campaigned against the fashion of the time for women to wear exotic feathers in hats, and to this end the Society had two simple rules:

At the time of founding, the trade in plumage for use in hats was very large: in the first quarter of 1884, almost 7,000 bird-of-paradise skins were being imported to Britain, along with 0.4 million birds from West India and Brazil, and 0.36 million birds from East India.


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