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01 December 2009 Comments News and comment The illegal persecution of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus rarely attracts mainstream media coverage – but it was national news at the end of October! Two Hen Harriers were shot on the edge of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk and police interviewed Prin...

Letter

01 December 2009 Comments Letters The two outlying Orkney islets north of Cape Wrath usually known to ornithologists as Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, and on charts as Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry (Brit. Birds 100: 300–304), present problems of nomenclature. Until recently, `Solan Gee...

Notes

01 December 2009 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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper This is the forty-ninth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. It is also the first report in the post-Mike Rogers era, the last that will be compiled primarily by Pete Fraser, and the last one with an introduction from me. Nigel Hudson...

British Birds – December 2007

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Recent reports

01 December 1993 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 18th October to 14th November 1993 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis North Ronaldsay (Orkney), 1st November. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Near De...

Mystery photographs

01 December 1993 Comments Main paper This month's mystery photograph (plate 229 on page 621) is obviously of a small passerine with an insectivore's bill. The bird is clearly in very bright light and very deep shade, so that its photographic appearance is a combination of underexposure an...

News and Comment

01 December 1993 Comments News and comment The folly of hasty decision-making over the management of rotational set-aside has meant that hoped-for improvement in the breeding performance of Sky Larks Alauda arvensis, and other birds using the fields, has not been realised. Monitoring by the BTO...

Studies of West Palearctic birds 192. Bullfinch

01 December 1993 Comments Main paper In many respects, the handsome Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula is quite distinct from most other finches of the West Palearctic region. Its coloration is striking, more different between the sexes than with other finches, and both adult and juvenile plumag...

Reviews

01 December 1993 Comments Reviews Great Auk Islands: a field biologist in the Arctic. By Tim Birkhead . Illustrated by David Quinn. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1993. 275 pages; 14 colour plates; 91 black-and-white plates; 36 line-drawings. ISBN 0-85661-077-1. £22.00....

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