Martin Gilbert

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment Martin Gilbert, a popular member of the UK birding scene, who was responsible for finding the Cley Slender-billed Gulls Chroicocephalus genei in 1987 and was the guardian of the nesting Black-winged Stilts Himantopus himantopus at Frodsh...
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Dick Brown (1935-2010)

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment Richard George Bolney (Dick) Brown was one of the most intelligent and charming of the Oxford ornithologists of the 1950s. A tall, lanky, sociable figure, for decades no international conference was complete without him in the bar. He was born in Wolverha...
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A new era on Fair Isle

01 June 2010
Comments News and comment The new Fair Isle Bird Observatory is, at the time of writing, almost finished. The £4m+ project, which contributors to BB have helped in a small way by donating their fees for photographs (including the front covers throughout 200...
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