Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early January 2009 to early February 2009. Headlines The main focus was on Scotland, with the reappearance of the Canvasback on Islay, three new Lesser Scaups, a Franklin’s Gull i...
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News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment The UK Government is dodging its responsibilities to the wildlife of the UK's Overseas Territories, which includes 34 bird species threatened with extinction. This is the view expressed by the RSPB in a hard-hitting commentary on the latest gloomy stat...
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Reviews

13 March 2014 Comments Reviews GROUSE By Adam Watson and Robert Moss. Collins, New Naturalist 107, London, 2008. 529 pages; 199 colour photos; many diagrams. ISBN 978-0-00-715097-7. Hardback, £50.00. ISBN 978-0-00-715098-4. Paperback, £30.00. It was an interesting choice that the ...
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Notes

13 March 2014 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

13 March 2014 Comments Letters As a consequence of our paper on this subject (Brit. Birds 101: 364–­375), we have received some feedback from Recorders and from national committees. We therefore suggest that the following conventions might be adopted for the areas named. 39. York...
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Recent reports

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment These ate largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records This summary deals with most of the rarities and scarce migrants reported during March. The departure of winter visitors and arrival of spring migrants in both March and April will be covered ...
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News and comment

13 March 2014 Comments News and comment Conservation priorities Dr J. J. M. Flegg, Director of the British Trust for Ornithology, presents some personal, and slightly heretical, views on conservation in the current issue of Conservation Keview, the bulletin of the Society for the Promotion of N...
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Notes

13 March 2014 Comments Notes Two pairs of Kestrels nesting on one electricity pylon On 15 th April 1971, in an area of reinstated opencast land at Staveley, Derbyshire, loud trilling calls drew my attention to four Kestrels Falco tinnunculus on an electricity pylon. There were two ol...
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