Recent reports

01 May 1996 Comments News and comment White-billed Diver Gavia adamsii Blyth Estuary (Northumberland), 20th March to 8th April. Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis Tittenhanger Gravel-pits (Hertfordshire), 7th-llth April. Briinnich's Guillemot Uria lomvia Ardnamurchan Peninsula (Highland), 27th Ma...
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News and comment

01 May 1996 Comments News and comment Whatever your views may be on the ethics of releasing birds for shooting, it is an extremely widespread practice that has implications for the avifauna of widely dispersed geographical areas. We have heard it claimed that, with the UK population of Gre...
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Letters

01 May 1996 Comments Letters In October 'News and comment' (Brit. Birds 88: 489), Shelley Hinsley's letter in the New Scientist about feeding peanuts in the summer was quoted. Readers may feel that this reference indicated the wholesale death of nestling tits Parus nationwide thro...
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News and comment

01 September 1973 Comments News and comment Pickled birds on the menu A recent press statement by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds draws attention to a distasteful matter not yet covered by legislation: the importing of pickled birds from Cyprus. It is thought that five to s...
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