Notes

01 March 2006
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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Letters

01 March 2006
Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...
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News and Comment

01 March 1971
Comments News and comment Action on environmental pollution ? Naturalists had been waiting with interest for the report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, published on 23rd February. They were not disappointed. The report was forthright in declaring that British t...
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Letters

01 March 1971
Comments Letters Future 'British and Irish Lists' At a national conference of regional and local bird report editors in September 1967, arranged by the Report Editors' Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, a resolution was passed deploring the multiplicity of li...
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Reviews

01 March 1971
Comments Reviews Wild Wings to the Northlands. By S. Bayliss Smith. Witherby, London, 1970. 208 pages; 24 black-and-white photographs. £1.50. Anyone might be forgiven for thinking, on brief acquaintance, that this is just another birdwatcher's travelogue full of sen...
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