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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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper This is the forty-ninth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. It is also the first report in the post-Mike Rogers era, the last that will be compiled primarily by Pete Fraser, and the last one with an introduction from me. Nigel Hudson...

British Birds – December 2007

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Reviews

01 July 1939 Comments Reviews Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Vol. X X I , Part I. T H I S contains a very well deserved tribute to Mr. Charles Oldham, signed by a number of naturalist friends and addressed to him on the occasion of his sevent...

Notes

01 July 1939 Comments Notes I THINK it will be of interest to record a case of bigamy in Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus), which I had under observation in England during the summer of 1938. It is well known that this species has a tendency to nest in small colonies, but I do no...

On the Courtship-display of the Goldeneye

01 July 1939 Comments Main paper THE courtship-display of the Goldeneye (Bucephala c. clangula) is perhaps more spectacular than that of any other duck and therefore has attracted the attention of several naturalists who have described it at considerable length. Among them I may mention ...

The Vocal Activity of Blackbirds at a winter Roost

01 July 1939 Comments Main paper THE noise made by the Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) in going to roost is a characteristic part of the countryside in winter, and is associated in the minds of many with a frosty evening. The following note describes an attempt to measure these roosting ca...

Rising and Roosting of a pair of Resident Starlings in Winter and early Spring

01 July 1939 Comments Main paper THOUGH the roosting of flocks of the Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has been well studied by Wynne-Edwards, in England work on the roosting, of individuals does not seem to have been so thoroughly done, so that the following observations made on a pair in th...

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On the Courtship-display of the Goldeneye

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Rising and Roosting of a pair of Resident Starlings in Winter and early Spring

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