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01 January 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early October to early December 2005. ...

BBRC says goodbye to birders' favourites

01 January 2006 Comments Editorials The number of records that the BBRC assesses has grown rapidly, while at the same time some observers are becoming less willing to submit descriptions for species that they feel are `less' rare. Following a consultation with County Recorders and record...

News and Comment

01 January 2006 Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...

Letters

01 January 2006 Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...

Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom

01 January 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In 1997, the Avian Population Estimates Panel (APEP) published its first collation of British and UK bird population estimates (Stone et al. 1997). This paper provides the first review of those estimates, drawing on information available prior...

The Northern Bullfinch invasion of autumn 2004

01 January 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A record invasion of `Northern Bullfinches' Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula occurred in Britain in autumn 2004. It also affected many other parts of Europe with birds being recorded as far afield as Iceland, Ireland, Italy and Bulgaria. As...

British Birds – January 2006

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BOU News

01 March 2005 Comments Main paper Should birders and naturalists care about climate change? Here are a few key facts: shifting both eastwards along the winter isotherms and northwards towards their breeding grounds. These changes mean that some sites designated as being important for w...

The gape-line of Steppe Eagle

01 March 2005 Comments Other A widely accepted identification feature of Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis is that the gape-line extends to a point level with, or even beyond, the rear edge of the eye (e.g. Cramp & Simmons 1980, Brown et al. 1982, Newman 1984, Porter et ...

The BB/BTO Best Bird Book of the Year 2004

01 March 2005 Comments Main paper British Birds and the British Trust for Ornithology announce the winner of the Award for BEST BIRD BOOK OF THE YEAR. All books reviewed in British Birds or the BTO publications BTO News and Bird Study during the year 2004 were eligible for consideratio...

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