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01 September 2005 Comments Notes All Notes submitted to British Birds are subject to independent review, either by the Notes Panel or by the BB Editorial Board.Those considered appropriate for BB will be published either here or on our website (www.britishbirds.co.uk) subject to the a...

The 1864 Wiltshire 'Steppe Buzzard' A review on behalf of the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee

01 May 2003 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT As part of its continuing review of records in Category B of the British List, the BOU Records Committee re-examined the specimen record of a Common Buzzard Buteo buteo shot at Everleigh, Wiltshire, in September 1864. Although this sp...

The Common Buzzard in Britain: a new population estimate

01 August 2002 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT During recent years, the Common Buzzard Buteo buteo has spread eastwards from its former strongholds in western and northern Britain. At the same time, there is evidence that the species is now breeding at a much higher density than p...

From the Rarities Committee's Files: Mystery photograph or a first for Britain?

01 January 2002 Comments Main paper Some of the more interesting records submitted to BBRC have been featured in British Birds in the series `From the Rarities Committee's files'.Those published so far have tended to deal with identification criteria for difficult species. Occasionally, ...

Letters

01 December 2000 Comments Letters Not all readers may be aware of the high numbers of birds of prey that are kept in captivity and the relatively large numbers of these that subsequently escape into the wild. The recent fashion for keeping and breeding hybrid falcons leads to a high pr...

Range expansion of theCommon Buzzardin Britain

01 May 2000 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The failure of the Common Buzzard Buteo buteo to re-establish itself as a breeding species in much of eastern Britain has been the subject of much speculation over the past 30 years. Recently, however, there is evidence that Common Buzzards ar...

Notes

01 February 2000 Comments Notes At 11.55 hours on 10th November 1995, at the Remolar-Filipines Reserve on the Llobregat Delta, Barcelona, Spain, we recorded what seemed to be a co-ordinated attack by three species of raptor on a subadult female Northern Goshawk Accipiter gentilis. Th...

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Mystery photographs

01 April 1993 Comments Main paper When I first saw this photograph (plate 31, repeated here), it was at a distance, so all I could see was what looked like a silhouette of a raptor, which could be an Accipiter. It has pretty good wing shape for a large female Eurasian Sparrowhawk A. ni...

Dispersal and age to first breeding of Buzzards in central Wales

01 November 1992 Comments Main paper During the four years 1975-78, we studied the ecology of carrion-feeding birds in the uplands of Central Wales. The Buzzard Buteo buteo was one of the species investigated. Most of our observations were made within a defined study area, about 35 km fro...

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Notes

The 1864 Wiltshire 'Steppe Buzzard' A review on behalf of the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee

The Common Buzzard in Britain: a new population estimate

From the Rarities Committee's Files: Mystery photograph or a first for Britain?

Letters

Range expansion of theCommon Buzzardin Britain

Notes

Notes

Mystery photographs

Dispersal and age to first breeding of Buzzards in central Wales

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