The UK has a long tradition of recording and latterly of deciding on concepts of national rarity and threat. From Eversham’s 1983 treatise on it, there have been variants and additions, ending up with Nationally Rare, Nationally Scarce, and the well-known list of IUCN Threat categories.

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