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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News and comment

01 September 2008
Comments News and comment The population has been increasing for 60 years ­ and has a plentiful supply of sandeels Ammodytes ­ but England's largest Puffin Fratercula arctica colony has declined by a third since 2003. Results from a three-month survey of Puffins on the Farne ...
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Reviews

01 September 2008
Comments Reviews WYE VALLEY By George Peterken. HarperCollins, New Naturalist Series 105, London, 2008. 466 pages; numerous colour photographs and other illustrations. Hardback: ISBN 978-0-00716068-6, £44.99. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-00716069-3, £24.99. sea, but just as...
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Notes

01 September 2008
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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