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01 March 2006 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...

Letters

01 March 2006 Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...

Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

01 March 2006 Comments Editorials Seabirds in the northeast Atlantic usually feed their chicks on small, oil-rich shoaling fish such as sandeels Ammodytes marinus, sprats Sprattus sprattus, herring Clupea harengus and capelin Mallotus villosus. Although many other fish species have bee...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper This is the second part of this, the ninth, annual Scarce Migrants report, which covers the passerine species from Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla to Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla. Part 1 of the report, which dealt with non-passerines, has ...

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Juvenile Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus exhibit a striking resemblance to Common Buzzards Buteo buteo, even though the two species are not closely related. Both species, but particularly Honey-buzzards, rather frequently fall prey to Northern ...

British Birds – March 2006

01 March 2006 Comments Latest issues ...

Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard RichardsonAward'

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper For two of the judges, it was the twelfth meeting to pick the 'Bird Illustrator of die Year' and the occasion was still just as absorbing as the first. We have watched the standard of work rising over the years, although it is hardly surpris...

Obituary: Sir Hugh Elliott, Bt, OBE (1913-1989)

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper Sir Hugh Elliott, Bt, OBE (1913-1989). Once upon a time, back in the 1950s when I was still a discontented medical student frequenting the Bird Room at the British Museum (Natural History), I found a representative collection of birds of the inade...

Identification of Hume's Short-toed Lark

01 July 1990 Comments Main paper In February 1986, a Hume's Short-toed Lark Calandrella acutirostris was seen and subsequently caught at Eilat, Israel: the first record for the Western Palearctic. Hume's Short-toed Lark breeds from eastern Iran through Afghanistan, northern Pakis...

Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1990 Comments Other 'CUCKOO' S METHOD OF DEPOSITING EGG. On May 19th, 1915,I visited an old friend of mine in Norfolk. He leads a very secluded life but is a keen observer of natural history and a man whose word one can trust implicitly. There are some ...

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