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01 December 2009 Comments News and comment The illegal persecution of Hen Harriers Circus cyaneus rarely attracts mainstream media coverage – but it was national news at the end of October! Two Hen Harriers were shot on the edge of the Sandringham estate in Norfolk and police interviewed Prin...

Letter

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...

Notes

01 December 2009 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...

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...

British Birds – December 2007

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Recent reports

01 October 2003 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early August to early September 2003. ...

Monthly marathon

01 October 2003 Comments Other At one time or another, we have all been faced with unsatisfactory, and often brief, rear-end views of an apparently unfamiliar bird disappearing into cover. Most will be common birds seen badly, but occasionally the views suggest that something more e...

Reviews

01 October 2003 Comments Reviews A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS By Gábor Michl. Gavia Science, Budapest, 2003. 291 pages; 48 illustrations. ISBN 963-210-172-3. Hardback, £32.99. ...

News and Comment

01 October 2003 Comments News and comment BirdLife International has reported that a new colony of Europe's rarest breeding bird, Madeira Petrel Pterodroma madeira (for which the alternative names of Zino's Petrel or Freira are also used), has been found in the central mountains of Madeira. Th...

Max Nicholson CVO CB

01 October 2003 Comments Obituaries Edward Max Nicholson, born on 12th July 1904 in Ireland and known to all simply as Max, died on 26th April 2003. One of the most influential conservationists of the twentieth century, Max was an exceptional ornithologist too. He founded the BTO in 1933...

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