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01 December 2009 Comments News and comment The illegal persecution of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus rarely attracts mainstream media coverage – but it was national news at the end of October! Two Hen Harriers were shot on the edge of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk and police interviewed Prin...

Letter

01 December 2009 Comments Letters The two outlying Orkney islets north of Cape Wrath usually known to ornithologists as Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, and on charts as Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry (Brit. Birds 100: 300–304), present problems of nomenclature. Until recently, `Solan Gee...

Notes

01 December 2009 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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper This is the forty-ninth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. It is also the first report in the post-Mike Rogers era, the last that will be compiled primarily by Pete Fraser, and the last one with an introduction from me. Nigel Hudson...

British Birds – December 2007

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Recent reports

01 July 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid May to mid June 2006. ...

Obituary: John Duncan Wood (1910-2006)

01 July 2006 Comments Obituaries Duncan Wood was born on 10th November 1910 into a staunchly Quaker family, his parents being wardens in the early 1900s of the Quaker College, Woodbrooke, on the Bristol Road at Bournville, Birmingham. Duncan was educated at The Downs School, Colwall, ...

Wood Lark and Dartford Warbler - 2006 breeding-season records

01 July 2006 Comments Editorials All records are required for singing male Wood Larks Lullula arborea (between 15th February and 31st May) and Dartford Warblers Sylvia undata (between 1st April and 31st July). This information will be used to supplement records collected by the nation...

News and Comment

01 July 2006 Comments News and comment Shortly before we went to press this month, we received an e-mail from Tony Fox, the lead author of the paper on Greenland White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons flavirostris in the May issue (Brit. Birds 99: 242261). Here is Tony's e-mail, in full: `De...

Reviews

01 July 2006 Comments Reviews A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE ORNITHOLOGY: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE By David G. Jenks. Isabelline Books, Penryn, 2004. 477 pages; 24 colour plates; blackand-white photographs. ISBN 0-9542955-4-4. Hardback, £58.00. Over the last one century or more, the co...

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