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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

01 December 2007 Comments Latest issues ...

Mystery photographs

01 January 1990 Comments Main paper -t ^f The large raptor depicted in plate 360 last month (and repeated A ^ v f here) has a large, powerful bill, long, rather broad wings, and well-fingered primaries. These features suggest an eagle of some kind.The heavy bill with prominent gape line ...

Obituaries: Sir Peter Scott CH CBE DSC FRS (1909-1989)

01 January 1990 Comments Main paper Like many of my generation, my early teenage interest in birds was nurtured on a diet of 'Nature Parliament' and 'Look'. I remember listening enthralled as Peter Scott related tales from his recent visits to East Africa, while James Fisher endeavoured ...

European news

01 January 1990 Comments Main paper With this twenty-sixth selection, we are delighted to announce a further strengthening of support, with the inclusion of records from 29 countries. We are especially pleased to be able to draw attention to the addition of Tunisia to our list. New conta...

Habitat of Slender-billed Curlews in Morocco

01 January 1990 Comments Main paper The Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris is one of Europe's most endangered and least-known migratory birds. It breeds in central Asian USSR, and is a long-distance migrant to Northwest Africa and perhaps also to Iran and Iraq. Less than a centu...

Short reviews

01 January 1990 Comments Reviews Birds of North Rona and Sula Sgeir. By Seabirds at Sea Team: Stuart Benn, Stuart Murray and Mark L. Tasker. (Nature Conservancy Council, Peterborough, 1989. 47 pages. Paperback £5.00). A remarkably comprehensive and concise publication on two of Scotl...

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