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The boundaries of the Palearctic region

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Although the western and eastern boundaries of the Palearctic region are widely agreed, there is still much debate about the southern boundary. In an attempt to establish a definitive southern boundary, the distribution of 1,037 breeding passe...

Reviews

01 December 2006 Comments Reviews BIRDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Edited by Anders P. Møller, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold. Academic Press, London, 2006. 251 pages; figures, tables. ISBN 0-12-373614-5. Paperback, £28.99. This book contains a series of papers published in 2004 as a vo...

Conservation research news

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment Over 1,200 bird species in the world are currently threatened with extinction, of which 179 are classified as `Critically Endangered\' ÃÂ¯Â¿Â½ the highest threat category. In the face of these statistics it is difficult to remain optimistic, b...

Racial identification and assessment in Britain: a report from the RIACT subcommittee

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper Throughout the past 100 years or so, interest in the racial identification of bird species has blown hot and cold. Many of today's familiar species were first described during the nineteenth century and, as interest in new forms grew, many collectors b...

Recent reports

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid October to mid November 2006. ...

News and Comment

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment The temporary ban on importing wild birds into the EU has lasted more than a year, but it's up for review later this month. The ban was imposed in October 2005 to contain the spread of H5N1 `avian flu' following the deaths of infected birds at a quaran...

British Birds – December 2006

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Migrant Ring Ouzels at a stopover site on the South Downs

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper Ring Ouzels Turdus torquatus from both the British and the Scandinavian populations regularly occur on passage in lowland England, where the species does not breed. Although Durman (1976) analysed the timing of this passage through Britain using bird-o...

Monthly marathon

01 June 1993 Comments Other STAGE 1 (plate 18): Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (71%), Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (10%), Greater Yellowlegs T. melanoleuca (4%) and Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (3%), with 2 % or less each for 12 other species. STAGE 2 (plate 32): Leach's Sto...

Bird Photograph of the Year

01 June 1993 Comments Main paper On 3rd February, the four judges faced a total of 120 colour transparencies submitted by 44 top bird-photographers, knowing that by the end of the day there had to be one winner. A daunting task, but, after six enthralling hours of study, discussion an...

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