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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Letters

01 August 1995
Comments Letters The female Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater at Jomfruland, Kragero, Telemark, Norway, on 1st June 1987 was not just 'found dead' as stated by McKay (1994). The bird was alive and feeding with Greenfinches Carduelis Moris on the ground in the garden of ...
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