Reviews

01 December 2006
Comments Reviews BIRDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Edited by Anders P. Møller, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold. Academic Press, London, 2006. 251 pages; figures, tables. ISBN 0-12-373614-5. Paperback, £28.99. This book contains a series of papers published in 2004 as a vo...
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Conservation research news

01 December 2006
Comments News and comment Over 1,200 bird species in the world are currently threatened with extinction, of which 179 are classified as `Critically Endangered\' � the highest threat category. In the face of these statistics it is difficult to remain optimistic, b...
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News and Comment

01 December 2006
Comments News and comment The temporary ban on importing wild birds into the EU has lasted more than a year, but it's up for review later this month. The ban was imposed in October 2005 to contain the spread of H5N1 `avian flu' following the deaths of infected birds at a quaran...
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Notes

01 November 2001
Comments Notes A recent paper dealing with the identification of Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca (Vinicombe 2000) included some discussion on hybrids between that species and Common Pochard A. ferina. Vinicombe's advice, that if a putative Ferruginous Duck shows any a...
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Announcement

01 November 2001
Comments Editorials David Christie, who has been closely involved with British Birds for almost thirty years, has decided to reduce his work commitments, and will retire as BB's Assistant Editor in April 2002. David's contribution to the journal has been truly en...
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The Carl Zeiss Award 2001

01 November 2001
Comments Main paper The British Birds Rarities Committee, established in 1959, has been supported and sponsored by Carl Zeiss Ltd, the renowned German optical company, since 1983 (Brit. Birds 76: 475). To encourage the submission of photographs, as supporting evidence to ...
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