News and comment

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...
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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...
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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...
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Recent reports

01 January 1981
Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not fully authenticated records The dates in this report refer to October unless otherwise stated. October was dominated by eastwardmoving depressions, bringing some very strong westerlies early in the month. From 1...
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News and comment

01 January 1981
Comments News and comment Wildlife and Countryside Bill The information paper on the proposed legislation covering nature conservation in the Wildlife and Countryside Bill has now been issued and it is hoped that the legislation itself will be introduced into Parliament...
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Announcements

01 January 1981
Comments Editorials Book offers It helps BB's finances if you order these books from us: Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book (Eyre Methuen) £4.95 post free. Birdwatcher's Yearbook 1981 (Buckingham Press) £5.45 (£4.95 + 50p p & p). If you order more than one...
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Notes

01 January 1981
Comments Notes Little Egrets with green legs and feet On 9th August 1980, at Porto Lago, Greece, J . I. Blincow and I noticed two Little Egrets Egretta garzetta exhibiting unusual coloration of'legs and feet. Resting upon a concrete groyne and in co...
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Fifty years ago

01 January 1981
Comments Other 'In 1920 I spent the last ten days of September in Scilly, and was there lor ten days from September 12th to 21st this year--ten years later... Some idea of the limited number of species to be seen in Scilly may be gathered from the fact that we observ...
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