Recent reports

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers mid August to mid September 2004. Canvasback Aythya valisineria Private site (Kent), 15th August. Ferruginous Duck Aythya nyroca Chew Valley Lake (Somerset), 20th August to 1st September. Zino's/Fea's Petrel Pterod...
Read More

News and Comment

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment The decline of the Corn Crake Crex crex is a familiar, if depressing, story. Mechanical mowing and the early harvesting of crops, before the end of the breeding season, have had a catastrophic effect on Corn Crakes in Britain and across much of western Eu...
Read More

Conservation research news

01 October 2004
Comments News and comment One of the assumptions that scientists often make about territorial birds is that individuals will choose the best breeding sites available. Consequently, when populations are small, every individual occupies a high-quality site but, as populations grow, ...
Read More

The Carl Zeiss Award 2004

01 October 2004
Comments Main paper One of the difficulties for the judging panel of the Carl Zeiss Award, for photographs of rarities assessed by the BBRC during the preceding year, is that we have to think of something new to say in our report each year. This year it was easy, in fact it ...
Read More

AudouinÕs Gull: new to Britain

01 October 2004
Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A second-summer Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii was found at Dungeness, Kent, on 5th May 2003. It lingered in the area for the remainder of the day, commuting between the shore and nearby pools on the RSPB reserve. It was present again the followi...
Read More

Foot-and-mouth and birdwatching

01 March 2001
Comments Editorials Foot-and-mouth is the latest in a series of body blows to British farming in recent years. The outbreak of this disease has, however, had ramifications the effects of which extend far beyond those people directly involved with the livestock industry. T...
Read More

Reviews

01 March 2001
Comments Reviews MIGRATION AND INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION OF WADERS: research and conservation on north Asian, African and European flyways International Wader Studies 10. 1998. 500 pages. ISSN 1354-9944. Paperback, £35.00. Copies available from International Wader St...
Read More

News and Comment

01 March 2001
Comments News and comment RSPB Scotland is pressing the Scottish Parliament and Executive to promote large-scale wetlands as a basis for f lood prevention, as well as improving the incentives in agri-environment schemes for positive floodplain management. With predictions that ...
Read More

Letters

01 March 2001
Comments Letters I was not terribly reassured by any of the comments of Mark Avery (Brit Birds 93: 500) in reply to my criticism of the pilot Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis cull and the rationale behind it (93: 394-396). Rather disturbingly, the RSPB's Director of Conse...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now