News and comment

01 June 2008 Comments News and comment BirdLife Malta and BirdLife International have warmly welcomed the European Court's decision to order Malta not to open the 2008 spring hunting season for Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur and Common Quail Coturnix coturnix. This is an interim ruling pen...
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Reviews

01 June 2008 Comments Reviews A CLIMATIC ATLAS OF EUROPEAN BREEDING BIRDS By Brian Huntley, Rhys E. Green, Yvonne C. Collingham and Stephen G. Willis. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 2007. 528 pages; 431 species mapped in colour. ISBN 978-84-96553-14-9. Hardback, £40.00. ...
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Notes

01 June 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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Letter

01 June 2008 Comments Letters I wholly agree with Martin Woodcock and Chris Smout's defence of the reputation of Arthur Newstead, and also their suggestion that once the unsupported implication of fraud is removed, there seems little reason to regard the Cheshire record of Kermadec...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 May 1988 Comments Other 'The inclusion of Barrow's Goldeneye as a British species has recently been shown to be entirely unwarranted and this is mentioned by Mr. Millais in a footnote added while his work was "in the press." We must take exception, too, to the inclusion of Ba...
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Identification of large terns

01 May 1988 Comments Main paper This concluding part consists solely of photographs of the seven (or eight) species concerned, and is intended to be used in conjunction with the text, maps and paintings which appeared in Part 1 (Brit. Birds 80: 257-276).107. Adult winter Caspian Tern...
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