News and comment

01 August 2011
Comments News and comment The radical plan to save the Spoon-billed Sand- piper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus from extinction revealed in last month's British Birds (Brit. Birds 104: 350-363) has had its first success. The international captive-breeding team, led by the Wildfowl & Wetla...
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Kestrels for Company

01 August 2011
Comments Reviews By Gordon Riddle Whittles Publishing, 2011 Pbk, 198pp; many colour photographs ISBN 978-184995-029-9 Subbuteo code M20795 £18.99 BB Bookshop price £17.00 Kestrels for Company is the latest offering from this publisher in a growing series of s...
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The Carl Zeiss Award 2011

01 August 2011
Comments Main paper The Carl Zeiss Award, established in 1991, is awarded for a photograph, or set of photographs, judged to have been most instructive for the BBRC's assess- ment of difficult species (or subspecies) during the previous year. Following the suc- cessful forma...
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