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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Recent reports

01 April 1995 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period 13th February to 19th March 1995. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Male at Tacumshin (Co. Wexford), 4th March. Lesser...
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Mystery photographs

01 April 1995 Comments Main paper It is early October and you come across a lone plover, obviously a Pluvialis, with no other waders present for comparison (plates 48 & 49 on page 195). First impressions are of a grey-and-white-spangled plover with a fairly obvious yellow tinge to ...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 1995 Comments Other Nearly everyone (91%) correctly identified the bird in plate 10 as Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus, the only other species named being Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus. An even higher proportion of entrants (97%) correctly identified the wade...
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News and comment

01 April 1995 Comments News and comment Standing on the top of Sletill Hill, the view was fantastic. For early November in Caithness, the weather was no less fantastic: clear blue skies, not a breath of wind, and temperatures that almost warranted shirt sleeves. Away to the east, Loch More w...
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