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01 December 2006 Comments Reviews BIRDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE Edited by Anders P. Møller, Wolfgang Fiedler and Peter Berthold. Academic Press, London, 2006. 251 pages; figures, tables. ISBN 0-12-373614-5. Paperback, £28.99. This book contains a series of papers published in 2004 as a vo... Read More

Racial identification and assessment in Britain: a report from the RIACT subcommittee

01 December 2006 Comments Main paper Throughout the past 100 years or so, interest in the racial identification of bird species has blown hot and cold. Many of today's familiar species were first described during the nineteenth century and, as interest in new forms grew, many collectors b... Read More

News and Comment

01 December 2006 Comments News and comment The temporary ban on importing wild birds into the EU has lasted more than a year, but it's up for review later this month. The ban was imposed in October 2005 to contain the spread of H5N1 `avian flu' following the deaths of infected birds at a quaran... Read More

Recent reports

01 January 1968 Comments News and comment (These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records) This summary is basically concerned with the month of November, but also includes a few relevant records from early December and some belated observations relating to the July-October period... Read More