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01 November 2008 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers mainly new arrivals between early September and early October 2008. ...

News and comment

01 November 2008 Comments News and comment ...

Reviews

01 November 2008 Comments Reviews PETRELS NIGHT AND DAY By Magnus Robb, Killian Mullarney and The Sound Approach. The Sound Approach, Poole, Dorset, 2008. 300 pages, 17 full-page colour plates; many colour photographs; and sonograms of most of the 127 sound recordings presented on two ...

Letter

01 November 2008 Comments Letters The excellent and informative paper by Heaney et al. (2008) stated that `The [Isles of Scilly] Puffin Fratercula arctica population is of great regional importance and, along with colonies in the Channel Islands and Co. Kerry, marks the southwestern li...

Conservation research news

01 November 2008 Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Bunting Emberiza calandra in recent decades, estimated at 86% between 1967 and 2005, has been among the most dramatic of any species in the UK. A similar pattern of decline, including range contraction and local extinct...

Highlights from a long-term study of Sparrowhawks

01 November 2008 Comments ABSTRACT The numbers of Eurasian Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus that breed in any landscape depend primarily on the amount of woodland, but within that woodland breeding densities vary with the prey supply. In continuous woodland, pairs space th...

Important Bird Areas: Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island

01 November 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Tristan da Cunha archipelago and nearby Gough Island are the only cool-temperate oceanic islands in the South Atlantic.They are globally important breeding sites for eight million pairs of seabirds, including four endemic breeding species....

British Birds – November 2008

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Letters

01 July 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--Records of Scaup (Aythya marila) appearing inland in Yorkshire this winter (1953-54) have been unusually numerous and I should be interested to know if these occurrences have been peculiar to Yorkshire only or whether this species has been recorded...

Request for information

01 July 1954 Comments Editorials Large passage of Black Terns.--In 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1950 interesting spring passages of Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) were noted in the British Isles, and the records were summarized and discussed in British Birds (antea, vol. xl, pp. 24-26, 93 and 37...

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