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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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Notes

01 September 1947 Comments Notes ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking some...

Report of the bird-ringing committee

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper THIS is the tenth report f issued on behalf of the Bird-Ringing Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, continuing the earlier sequence published under the title " The British Birds Marking Scheme."The composition of the Committee remains the same...

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper the co-operation of 64 observers, it has been possible to provide evidence of the breeding of at least ten pairs of Black Redstarts (Phcenicurus ochrurus gibraltariensis) in England in 1946. A further 13 pairs or singing males occupied territories, but wi...

Notes on Welsh Choughs

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper As THE Chough (Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax) is one of our lesserknown species, the following observations might be of interest as furnishing corroboration of the excellent account of this species given in The Handbook. The notes are the result of observati...

Some cases of abnormal flight of birds

01 September 1947 Comments Main paper instances of abnormal flight in birds, which I have observed, open up an interesting subject for speculation. The collection of further data may throw light upon the reasons. Probably in many cases the effect of air currents, pockets and lifts may be assu...

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Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

British Birds – December 2007

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Report of the bird-ringing committee

Report on the Black Redstart inquiry for 1946

Notes on Welsh Choughs

Some cases of abnormal flight of birds

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