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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Recent reports

01 October 1995
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 14th August to 17th September 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black-browed Albatross Diomedea melanophris Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 10th...
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News and comment

01 October 1995
Comments News and comment It was in 1990 that the (then) Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the RSPB published Red Data Birds in Britain, identifying 117 species in need of 'our care and attention'. Knowledge relating to the status of some of these species was inevitably sket...
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