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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... Read More

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... Read More

Species boundaries in the Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gull complex

01 July 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The BOURC Taxonomic Sub-committee (TSC) recently published recommendations for the taxonomy of the Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull complex (Sangster et al. 2007). Six species were recognised: Herring Gull Larus argentatus, L... Read More

Reviews

01 February 1961 Comments Reviews Vara Faglar i Norden (Our Birds in the North). Second edition edited by Kai Curry-LindaM (Swedish text). Bokforlaget Natur och Cultur, Stockholm, 1959 and i960. Volumes I and II, 1022 pages; coloured and black-and-white plates, and maps, (Four volumes: Sw... Read More