News and comment

01 July 2008 Comments News and comment An international campaign has been launched to halt the slaughter of Greenland's nesting seabirds. Thousands of birds have been killed this spring after Greenland's government caved in to hunters and allowed an extra month of shooting. The RSPB, Audubo...
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Notes

01 July 2008 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...
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Letter

01 July 2008 Comments Letters Collinson & Melling (2008) discussed the potential pitfalls of identifying vagrant Iberian Chiffchaffs Phylloscopus ibericus (Brit. Birds 101: 174­188). Some of their statements prompt a correction and a discussion. Their paper showing the breedin...
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Conservation research news

01 July 2008 Comments News and comment The role of avian predators in limiting the numbers of their songbird prey has been a controversial subject for many years. Some argue that the large declines in many songbird populations have been caused by increased numbers of nest predators like Mag...
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Recording areas of Great Britain

01 July 2008 Comments Main paper It has recently become apparent that there are some confusions and anomalies in the way that national journals and organisations are reporting records received from County Recorders or taken from published sources. Examples of the problem can be seen i...
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Reviews

01 February 1986 Comments Reviews Gulls and Plovers: the ecology and behaviour of mixed-species feeding groups. By C. J. Barnard and D. B. A. Thompson. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 302 pages; 14 black-and-white plates; 10 line-drawings. £25.00.This book--the first of Croom Helm's project...
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Recent reports

01 February 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records.0 The dates in this report refer to November 1985 unless otherwise stated. Weather and seabird movements The cold airstream coming from the north at the end of October which introdu...
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