News and Comment

01 January 2005
Comments News and comment Alarm bells are ringing at bird clubs across England and Wales after a little-noticed change in the law which came into effect on 1st January. The Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) have been implemented in parallel with the Freedom of Informa...
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Reviews

01 January 2005
Comments Reviews BEGUILED BY BIRDS: IAN WALLACE ON BRITISH BIRDWATCHING By Ian Wallace. Christopher Helm, A&C Black, London, 2004. 272 pages; 170 photographs; 182 colour illustrations. ISBN 0-7136-6535-1 Hardback, £29.99. fans will particularly enjoy the accounts ...
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Notes

01 January 2005
Comments Notes Hunting strategy of Eurasian Sparrowhawk Short-eared Owl preying on Merlin Sky lark using birdwatchienrs as refuge from Merlins White-winged Black Tern feedingon butterflies Song of Common Chaffinch resmeling that of Les...
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Letters

01 January 2005
Comments Letters Andrew Harrop's paper on the `soft-plumaged petrel' P. madeira/feae/mollis complex (Brit. Birds 97: 6-15) and Ian Wallace's letter in response (Brit. Birds 97: 349) prompt the following. The phrases that struck me in Harrop's paper were `rare and genui...
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