In 2009 the herring gull was added to the Red List of Birds of Conservation Concern, which is drawn up by a group of charities and conservation organisations.

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Manx shearwaters are on the amber list of UK Birds of Conservation Concern.

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He added that although the starling was one of the commonest of garden birds, its decline elsewhere has put it on the "red list" of endangered species.

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Family-friendly games like "Angry Birds" and "Bejeweled" consistently hover on the list of top-ten apps for the iPhone and other mobile platforms.

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The list of affected apps is pretty staggering, including such high profile titles as Angry Birds Space, Yahoo!

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"The fact that the bird list now includes more than a fifth of all the UK's regularly occurring birds is a cause for alarm, " said Mark Avery, the RSPB's conservation director.

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If one looks at the IUCN Red List, the global authority on threatened species, the concentrations are much higher, with 83% of the most threatened birds, 82% of the most threatened mammals, and 90% of the most threatened amphibians concentrated in the Hotspots.

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