News and comment

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...
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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...
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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...
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Reviews

01 May 1986
Comments Reviews Neotropical Omithology. Edited by P. A. Buckley, Mercedes S. Foster, Eugene S. Morton, Robert S. Ridgely and Francine C. Buckley. Ornithological Monographs No. 36. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, 1985, 1,044 pages; eight colour plates; eigh...
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Recent reports

01 May 1986
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to February unless otherwise stated. A blocking anticyclone to the northeast, which established a flow of very cold air from Siberia, remained in pos...
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News and Comment

01 May 1986
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Condor news. Even the tarnest of conservation-minded people must have been staggered by the astonishing reports Coming out of California concerning the California ...
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Request

01 May 1986
Comments Editorials Hampshire tetrad atlas breeding survey. This year marks the start of a four-year survey organised by the Hampshire Ornithological Society to map the distribution of breeding birds in the county. We hope that all birders resident in or visiting the...
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Announcements

01 May 1986
Comments Editorials 'British Birds' in Thailand 1986. The special 'BB' tour to Thailand during 24th January to 11 th February 1986 was a huge success. The 16 days in the field resulted in the very high total of 354 species, including all the expec...
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