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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...

Rarities committee news

01 January 2008 Comments News and comment Although it is more than two years since Canada Goose was split into two species, Greater Branta canadensis and Lesser Canada Goose B. hutchinsii, neither species is currently on category A of the British List. Both species apparently...

News and comment

01 January 2008 Comments News and comment The discovery of a new bird taxon is always exciting; if it is a wader, and a migratory one at that, it is not only exciting, but also almost unbelievable. David Bakewell and BB Assistant Editor Peter Kennerley are to be congratulated (and envied) for ...

Reviews

01 January 2008 Comments Reviews COLLINS FIELD GUIDE – BIRDS OF THE PALEARCTIC: PASSERINES By Norman Arlott. HarperCollins, London, 2007. 240 pages; 80 colour plates; numerous distribution maps. ISBN 978-0-00-714705-2. Hardback, £25.00. there is currently little available informa...

Optimising digital images

01 January 2008 Comments Main paper Once the shutter has been pressed, most igital photography has opened up a images can be substantially improved by photowhole new world for many birders, editing software. Just about all compact cameras while for seasoned bird photographers come with b...

Should Kermadec Petrel be on the British List?

01 January 2008 Comments ABSTRACT In April 1908, a dark-morph Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta was reportedly found dead in Cheshire.The record was accepted by BOURC for more than 60 years but was removed from the British List in 1971 because the species was consid...

Mourning Dove on North Ulst: new to Britain

01 January 2008 Comments Atlantic depressions skirting the north of Scotland in September 1999 brought an unprecedented influx of North American waders to the Outer Hebrides. On North and South Uist, these included at least eight Semipalmated Sandpipers Calidris pusilla (a spe...

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Mourning Dove on North Ulst: new to Britain

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