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01 August 2008 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mainly new arrivals between early June and early July 2008. ...

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01 August 2008 Comments News and comment ...

Reviews

01 August 2008 Comments Reviews BIRDS OF SURREY By Jeffery J. Wheatley. Surrey Bird Club, 2007. 696 pages; 11 colour plates; 57 line-drawings; 36 colour photographs; numerous maps and tables. ISBN 978-0-901363-08-6. Hardback, £35.00. This book has been a long time coming, but it rea...

Notes

01 August 2008 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...

Letter

01 August 2008 Comments Letters It is now over a decade since the first of three recent controversial large skuas turned up in Britain, and the debate on their identity continues to ebb and flow. Jiguet (2007) was among the more recent to discuss the three birds – in Dorset, in J...

Important Bird Areas: Breeding seabirds on the Isles of Scilly

01 August 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Isles of Scilly are long famous for attracting rare migrant birds, and much-visited in spring and autumn by those in search of them, but it is much less widely appreciated that the islands also support an outstanding and internationally im...

Bird Photograph of the Year 2008

01 August 2008 Comments Reviews The judging of `BPY' is always one of the highlights of the BB year. With more entries this year, and a clutch of unfamiliar names on the leader board, it is satisfying to know that this competition continues to go from strength to strength. This does ...

'Northern Harrier' on Scilly: new to Britain

01 August 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A juvenile harrier on Scilly from 22nd October 1982 until 8th June 1983 has now been accepted as Britain's first Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus of the Nearctic race hudsonius, or `Northern Harrier'. This article describes the occurrence and presen...

British Birds – August 2008

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Letters

01 October 1950 Comments Letters --I am engaged in investigating t h e ringing records of Blue Tits. Amongst the known causes of death it is astonishing to find that the mousetrap is a principal one. I t may be necessary to place r a t and mouse traps in gardens, b u t I suggest that the...

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