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13 March 2014 Comments Letters D o some Wallcreepers migrate? Recent letters by David Elias, H. G. Alexander and Guy Mountfort on the movements of the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria referred respectively to observations in Cyprus (Brit. Birds, 63: 393-394) and the Indo-Pakistan subc...

Oriental Turtle Dove helps out its European cousins

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment ...

Tristan penguins update

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment Following the disastrous oil spill after the grounding, in March 2011, of the cargo ship MS Oliva on Nightingale Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha UK Overseas Territory (Brit. Birds 104: 229, 282) and home to half the world population...

Funds for Henderson Island rat eradication secured

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment The world-leading RSPB operation to restore Henderson Island, the remote UK Overseas Territory in the South Pacific, where introduced rodents are killing over 25,000 petrel chicks every year, will proceed this summer. An international partnership with two...

Stork massacre in Lebanon

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment Indiscriminate killing...

OSME summer meeting

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment The Summer Meeting of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia (OSME) will be held on Saturday 16th July at BTO HQ, Thetford, Norfolk. Doors open at 10.00 am and non-members are welcome. Speakers include Phil Cannings, ...

Moorland fires threaten last strongholds of nesting Twite

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment After the driest, warmest April on record, a series of wildfires across the UK has destroyed much nesting habitat of several key species. Of particular concern is the Twite Carduelis flavirostris. Up to 40% of the English population could have be...

Diclofenac ban shows first signs of progress

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment The ban on a veterinary drug that caused the catastrophic collapse in Asian vulture populations has shown the first signs of progress, according to scientists. In a new study, published in the online journal PloS ONE, researchers reported pre- and post-ba...

RSPB protests at review of farming regulations

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment An 'irresponsible bonfire' of farming regulations would do irreparable damage to our natural environment, says the RSPB. The Task Force on Farming Regulation, chaired by former NFU director-general Richard Macdonald, is due to report its findings to Defra...

Milestones of African bird images and sound recordings

07 June 2011 Comments News and comment Two major milestones have been reached simultaneously for birders interested in Africa: the 2,000th species was loaded onto the African Bird Image Database (AFBID) of photographs and the 1,000th species onto the sound recordings site xeno-canto Africa, th...

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