Notes

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...
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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...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 2003
Comments Other Although different species of grass vary in size, the vegetation around the bird in photo number 195 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 28, repeated here as plate 149 is a pretty good indicator of scale and suggests that we are dealing with a small bird. The size ...
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