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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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Recent reports

01 October 2001 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers late August to mid September ...

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...

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. ...

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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