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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Monthly Marathon

01 February 1996
Comments Other With Christmas and New Year postal delays still affecting incoming mail from overseas, even in mid January, we are extending the deadline for receipt of entries for the fourth stage of the current Marathon (December's plate 221). So far, seven species ...
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Looking Back

01 February 1996
Comments Other Fifty years ago, a Note reported on: 'COMMON GULLS NESTING ON BIRCH TREES. In June, 1945,  during a period of leave spent on Upper Deeside (Aberdeenshire), I noted on several occasions Common Gulls (Larus c. canus), perching on trees near the...
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Recent reports

01 February 1996
Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 18th December 1995 to 14th January 1996. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus Still present at Nimmo's P...
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