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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

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Requests

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials For forthcoming papers, colour transparencies or colour prints of the following species are needed: Saker Falco cherrug, Lanner F. biarmicus, Gyr F. rusticolus and Barbary Falcons F. pelegrinoides. Greater Sand Charadrius leschenaultii, Lesser Sand C. ...

Announcements

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials The key to the first part of the solution to the puzzle on page ix in the December 1996 issue (pictures repeated here) was the phrase 'brainpower initially', as the word BRAINPOWER contains the initial letters, in order, of each species illustrated: Bl...

Rarities Committee News and Announcements

01 May 1997 Comments Editorials Peter Clement retired in rotation at the end of March 1997. We wish to put on record our thanks to Peter for his efforts on behalf of birdwatchers and County Recorders everywhere during his membership of the Committee. No doubt we shall turn to him fro...

Conservation Research News

01 May 1997 Comments News and comment A tenth of the World's 10,000 bird species are threatened with global extinction and 24 of these are found in Europe (about one in 20 of Europe's bird species). Dr Borja Heredia, Laurence Rose and Mary Painter provide action plans for 19 of these, as w...

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