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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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The boundaries of the Palearctic region

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Although the western and eastern boundaries of the Palearctic region are widely agreed, there is still much debate about the southern boundary. In an attempt to establish a definitive southern boundary, the distribution of 1,037 breeding passe...

Reviews

01 December 2006 Comments Reviews BIRDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Edited by Anders P. Møller, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold. Academic Press, London, 2006. 251 pages; figures, tables. ISBN 0-12-373614-5. Paperback, £28.99. This book contains a series of papers published in 2004 as a vo...

Conservation research news

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment Over 1,200 bird species in the world are currently threatened with extinction, of which 179 are classified as `Critically Endangered\' ÃÂ¯Â¿Â½ the highest threat category. In the face of these statistics it is difficult to remain optimistic, b...

Racial identification and assessment in Britain: a report from the RIACT subcommittee

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper Throughout the past 100 years or so, interest in the racial identification of bird species has blown hot and cold. Many of today's familiar species were first described during the nineteenth century and, as interest in new forms grew, many collectors b...

Recent reports

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid October to mid November 2006. ...

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