News and comment

01 June 2008 Comments News and comment BirdLife Malta and BirdLife International have warmly welcomed the European Court's decision to order Malta not to open the 2008 spring hunting season for Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur and Common Quail Coturnix coturnix. This is an interim ruling pen...
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Reviews

01 June 2008 Comments Reviews A CLIMATIC ATLAS OF EUROPEAN BREEDING BIRDS By Brian Huntley, Rhys E. Green, Yvonne C. Collingham and Stephen G. Willis. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 2007. 528 pages; 431 species mapped in colour. ISBN 978-84-96553-14-9. Hardback, £40.00. ...
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Notes

01 June 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...
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Letter

01 June 2008 Comments Letters I wholly agree with Martin Woodcock and Chris Smout's defence of the reputation of Arthur Newstead, and also their suggestion that once the unsupported implication of fraud is removed, there seems little reason to regard the Cheshire record of Kermadec...
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Announcements

01 December 1977 Comments Editorials Reduced subscription rates By using special forms obtainable through their local organisations, members of the following clubs and societies can now or will soon be able to subscribe to British Birds for £6.00 instead of the standard £8.00 pe...
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Letters

01 December 1977 Comments Letters Black-headed Gulls foot-paddling on grassland Joh. J. Frieswijk's letter (Brit. Birds 70: 266), recording frequent observations of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus foot-paddling on grassland in the Netherlands, contrasted with my note drawin...
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