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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...

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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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Letters

01 March 2004 Comments Letters May I congratulate the Editorial Board of British Birds for having the courage, foresight and wisdom to take a sensible stand on the subject of changes to English bird names. One can argue forever about whether a particular name change is a good idea, ...

Canvasback in Kent: new to Britain

01 March 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A male Canvasback Aythya valisineria was recorded at Cliffe, Kent, on 7th December 1996.This has now been accepted as the first record for Britain; it preceded a more settled, and much more widely observed bird in Norfolk in January 1997.To da...

Displaying Swinhoe's Snipe in eastern European Russia: a new species for Europe

01 March 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A displaying male Swinhoe's Snipe Gallinago megala was observed in the Polar Urals, in European Russia, in June 2002.This represents the first authenticated record of this species for Europe and only the second for the Western Palearc...

The 'North American' Peregrine Falcon in Britain: A review on behalf of the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee

01 March 2004 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The BOU Records Committee has reviewed two previously accepted British records of `North American' Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum. The first was alleged to have been obtained in Leicestershire in October 1891, and the second...

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Notes

Letters

Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

British Birds – March 2006

Letters

Canvasback in Kent: new to Britain

Displaying Swinhoe's Snipe in eastern European Russia: a new species for Europe

The 'North American' Peregrine Falcon in Britain: A review on behalf of the British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee

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