News and Comment

01 November 2003 Comments News and comment Birders in Dorset are campaigning against a windfarm proposal for Weymouth harbour. This is the latest offshore scheme to spark protests from birders in England and follows plans for major windfarm projects at Teesmouth and the Solway Firth (see Brit. ...
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Reviews

01 November 2003 Comments Reviews RAPTORS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Proceedings of the joint meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation and The World Working Group on Birds of Prey & Owls, Eilat, Israel, 2nd-8th April 2000. Edited by R. Yosef, M. L. Miller & D. Pepler. International...
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Announcement

01 October 2001 Comments Editorials Thanks to the generosity of well-known artist and staunch BB-supporter Ian Wallace, BB is delighted to offer its subscribers the opportunity to purchase this fantastic DIMW original, featuring European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and No...
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Reviews

01 October 2001 Comments Reviews NIGHTJARS AND THEIR ALLIES By D.T. Holyoak. Illustrated by Martin Woodcock. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001. 773 pages; 23 colour plates; maps; line-drawings. ISBN 0-19-854987-3. Hardback, £50.00.  ...
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News and Comment

01 October 2001 Comments News and comment We previously reported that a new journal, The Osprey, would be appearing in 2001 and that this would coincide with the demise of the respective journals of the three ornithological societies of the armed services (Brit. Birds 93: 462).The Navy, or, mo...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 2001 Comments Other The bird flying away from us in Monthly Marathon photo number 179 (plate 199, repeated here as plate 278) shows extremely long wings, and, although the tail is spread, the long outer feathers suggest a deeply forked tail, too. Pratincoles Glareola...
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