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BB eye: The changing nature of bird conservation – some reflections

01 December 2019 Comments Editorials By Mike Clarke My last formal engagement as the RSPB’s CEO was to help celebrate the 60th anniversary of the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC) at the Birdfair last August. The BBRC archives and database of rare taxa in Britain ...

My patch – east Somerset

01 December 2019 Comments Editorials East Somerset is an amazing, and very much under-watched, area. I’m very fortunate that within an easy walk, or a few minutes’ drive of home, there are two of the best patches. Birding to the sound of lions roaring, whilst giraffes ambl...

Short index of English names of birds

01 December 1960 Comments Editorials This simplified index is confined to the numbers of the first pages of papers, notes and letters on the species concerned. Casual references to other species within the text are not included, nor are birds discussed in reviews or in the "Recent reports an...

List of illustrations

01 December 1960 Comments Editorials Lammergeier (Gypaitus barbatus), adult at nest, Spain (from a Kodachrome by Eric Hosking) .. .. , , facing Rose-brcastcd Grosbeak (Pbeucticus ludovicianus), male summer and winter, and female; American Purple Gallinule (Porphyrula martinica), adult and yo...

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BB eye: The changing nature of bird conservation – some reflections

My patch – east Somerset

Short index of English names of birds

List of illustrations

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