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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

01 December 2007 Comments Latest issues ...

Continuing dangers to Peregrines from dieldrin

01 October 1973 Comments Main paper On 3rd February 1973 an adult male Peregrine Falco peregrinus was found dazed, with, little control of equilibrium, in upper Strathendrick, Stirlingshire. The bird ate little and died the next day. About 1st April 1973 an adult female Peregrine wa...

A review of population dynamics in birds

01 October 1973 Comments Main paper This review discusses some of the latest developments in research on population dynamics. A safe way to do this is to take the usual textbook approach, which describes the most important principles so far discovered in a scientific subject and summaris...

Recent Reports

01 October 1973 Comments News and comment An unusual report for the time of year was of a Great Northern Diver Gavia immer in full summer plumage at Blackpill (Glamorgan's on 16th. Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus were numerous in the North Sea during the month, and northerly movements were ...

News & Comments

01 October 1973 Comments News and comment Nature Conservancy reorganisation It is now over a year since the idea of splitting the Nature Conservancy's research functions from its management and advisory r&les was outlined in a Government White Paper, the proposal being that the Res...

Request for information

01 October 1973 Comments Editorials ...

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