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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Reviews

01 September 1985 Comments Reviews A Dictionary of Birds. Edited by Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lack. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1985. 670 pages; over 500 black-and-white plates, line-drawings and diagrams. £39.00.  The majority of books that one is asked to review one s...
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Short Reviews

01 September 1985 Comments Reviews Birds of Kerala: the birds of Travancore and Cochin. By Salim Ali. (Oxford University Press, India; first published 1953, second edition 1969, reprinted 1984. £15.00) This welcome reprint will be indispensable to anyone visiting southern India (and no...
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Recent reports

01 September 1985 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records The dates in this report refer to June unless otherwise stated. An anticyclone gave warm easterly weather for the first few days of the month. From 6th, however, cool nort...
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News and comment

01 September 1985 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Bird films for youth. As part of the International Year of Youth, the first International Ornithological Film Festival will take place in the District of Menigoute...
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Requests

01 September 1985 Comments Editorials Migration surveys and ringing at Eilat, Israel.0 Help is required at the birdwatching centre of the Nature Reserve Authority at Eilat in 1985/86 for: (1) autumn 1985 (ringing of passerines and waders during 15th August to 31st December), and (2...
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