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Correction

01 April 2004 Comments Editorials The figures for the number of Marsh Harriers Circus aeruginosas breeding in the UK, published in the annual report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel for 2001 (Ogilvie et al. 2003), considerably under-reported the numbers of pairs and young reared in Nor...

Announcement

01 April 2004 Comments Editorials Subscribers tell us that they welcome the changes that have been made to BB in the last couple of years. This is reflected in the fact that the previous decline in number of subscribers has been halted. We want to do more, particularly in terms of expa...

Requests

01 May 1995 Comments Editorials Photographs of 1994 rarities needed. Colour prints, black-and-white prints and colour transparencies are needed to illustrate the Rarities Committee's next report. Please send prints or slides (as soon as possible) to Mrs Sheila Cobban, British Birds, ...

The famous Grouse' Scotch whisky Christmas puzzle: the solution

01 May 1995 Comments Editorials 1. The Honey-buzzard will dig a huge hole, sometimes almost burying itself, as it excavates a wasps' nest. 2. An ancient stone circle on The Machars in Dumfries & Galloway is known as the Wren's Egg. 3. Runaway slaves were known as 'blackbirds'. 4....

Rarities committee news and announcements

01 May 1995 Comments Editorials Alan Brown retired from the British Birds Rarities Committee as longest-serving member on 31st March 1995. Nominations for his replacement were invited via a number of publications during 1994. No nomination was made by the Committee itself, opening up...

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