News and comment

01 June 2008 Comments News and comment BirdLife Malta and BirdLife International have warmly welcomed the European Court's decision to order Malta not to open the 2008 spring hunting season for Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur and Common Quail Coturnix coturnix. This is an interim ruling pen...
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Reviews

01 June 2008 Comments Reviews A CLIMATIC ATLAS OF EUROPEAN BREEDING BIRDS By Brian Huntley, Rhys E. Green, Yvonne C. Collingham and Stephen G. Willis. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 2007. 528 pages; 431 species mapped in colour. ISBN 978-84-96553-14-9. Hardback, £40.00. ...
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Notes

01 June 2008 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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Letter

01 June 2008 Comments Letters I wholly agree with Martin Woodcock and Chris Smout's defence of the reputation of Arthur Newstead, and also their suggestion that once the unsupported implication of fraud is removed, there seems little reason to regard the Cheshire record of Kermadec...
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Corrections

01 December 1997 Comments Editorials Line 1, 'Brit. Birds 90: 1-22' should read '90: 25-62'. Tetrad Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Essex Price given as £17.50 should read £15.95. Fig. 8. Juvenile Wilson's Phalarope. Artist was Andy Wilson (not Stephen Mawby). Line 29, '31st September' s...
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Recent reports

01 December 1997 Comments News and comment Compiled by Barry Nightingale and Anthony McGeehan This summary covers the period from 13th October to 9th November 1997. These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Great White Egret Egretta alba Cape Clear Island, 26th October, same at Sc...
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