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01 December 2009 Comments Letters The two outlying Orkney islets north of Cape Wrath usually known to ornithologists as Sule Skerry and Sule Stack, and on charts as Sule Skerry and Stack Skerry (Brit. Birds 100: 300–­304), present problems of nomenclature. Until recently, `Solan Gee... Read More

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper This is the forty-ninth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. It is also the first report in the post-Mike Rogers era, the last that will be compiled primarily by Pete Fraser, and the last one with an introduction from me. Nigel Hudson... Read More

The Index of Heron Population, 1944

01 May 1945 Comments Main paper The number of reports on sites occupied by Herons in 1944, which were received at the Edward Grey Institute, was i n . Of these 77 were in England, 6 in Wales, 8 in Scotland and 20 in Ireland. We are indebted to 55 informants, of whom a considerable numbe... Read More

British Recoveries of Birds Ringed Abroad

01 May 1945 Comments Main paper the last twelve years, records of the recovery in the British Isles of birds ringed abroad have been incorporated in a series of articles written and compiled by the late H. F. Witherby and the present writer.* In these articles birds ringed in the Britis... Read More