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01 January 2006 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early October to early December 2005. ...

BBRC says goodbye to birders' favourites

01 January 2006 Comments Editorials The number of records that the BBRC assesses has grown rapidly, while at the same time some observers are becoming less willing to submit descriptions for species that they feel are `less' rare. Following a consultation with County Recorders and record...

News and Comment

01 January 2006 Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...

Letters

01 January 2006 Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...

Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom

01 January 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT In 1997, the Avian Population Estimates Panel (APEP) published its first collation of British and UK bird population estimates (Stone et al. 1997). This paper provides the first review of those estimates, drawing on information available prior...

The Northern Bullfinch invasion of autumn 2004

01 January 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A record invasion of `Northern Bullfinches' Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula occurred in Britain in autumn 2004. It also affected many other parts of Europe with birds being recorded as far afield as Iceland, Ireland, Italy and Bulgaria. As...

British Birds – January 2006

01 January 2006 Comments Latest issues ...

Notes

01 June 1938 Comments Notes As I have not been able to find any record of the HouseSparrow (Passer A. domesticus) excavating a nesting hole in rotten wood, such an occurrence seems to be worth recording. Both the cock and the hen excavated, both birds sometimes being in the confine...

Notes on the Land-Rail

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper IN Cumberland the Land-Rail (Crex crex) nests commonly in the clover-hay and meadow-hay fields ; sometimes in young plantations where the trees have not yet smothered the grass, and occasionally in the waste land of small bushes and rough grass about coun...

Some observations on the breeding-habits of birds

01 June 1938 Comments Main paper THE following data regarding some of our commoner birds were obtained in mid-Gloucestershire during the years 1930-33. The district consisted of fields divided by hedges and stone walls, and was mainly a grazing one, but there was some arable land and inc...

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