News and comment

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...
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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...
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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...
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News and comment

01 December 1981 Comments News and comment New NNRs The Nature Conservancy Council has announced the creation of two new National Nature Reserves. The Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods NNR, covering some 300 ha, has been formed with three major additions to the former Workmans NNR: the co...
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Requests

01 December 1981 Comments Editorials Winter Atlas The BTO and the Irish Wildbird Conservancy have launched a major project, the Winter Adas. Fieldwork starts in mid November and continues until the end of February in each of. the next three winters (in 1981/82, the precise dates a...
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Announcements

01 December 1981 Comments Editorials Gift subscriptions Readers are reminded that special gift cards are available so that British Birds can be given as a present to a friend. You may obtain such gift subscriptions at the same rate as your own; the gift card will be sent separatel...
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Diary dates

01 December 1981 Comments Editorials This list covers events taking place during January to December 1982. We welcome submission of details for possible inclusion in the next list, coveringjuly 1982 to June 1983.  8th-10th January BTO RINGING AND MIGRATION CONFERENCE. Hayes C...
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Letters

01 December 1981 Comments Letters Wintering Bitterns in Britain The recent paper by Dr C. J. Bibby on wintering Bitterns Botaurus stellaris in Britain (Brit. Birds 74: 1-10) illustrated that the population is supplemented in winter by immigration to this country of Bitterns fro...
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