News and comment

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...
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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...
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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...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1986
Comments Other 'SHAG IN SUFFOLK. ON January 23rd, 1911, an immature Shag (Phalacrocorax graculus) was sent to me by post with a request to name it, and the following account of its capture:--"My son was riding his bicycle home the other evening about 7.30, and the bi...
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Recent reports

01 March 1986
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to December unless otherwise stated. Wet, cloudy, westerly weather with aboveaverage temperatures persisted throughout most of the month until 26th, ...
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Reviews

01 March 1986
Comments Reviews Log for Birdwatching. By Trevor Dolby. Charles Letts, London, 1985. 96 pages; many colour illustrations and line drawings. £2.95. One of a Letts series of pocket booklets covering various hobbies, the Log for Birdwatching illustrates and describe...
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News and Comment

01 March 1986
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Navy to the rescue. Many colonies of Gannets Sula bassana are festooned with tons of fishing-net remnants and nylon lines, and that on Les Etacs and Ortac in Alder...
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Request

01 March 1986
Comments Editorials Atlas of bird distribution in Sri Lanka Any observations of birds during the last 15 years in Sri Lanka will be welcomed for possible inclusion in a project to map the current distribution of all Sri Lankan birds. Records, which will be acknowledged, s...
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