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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News and Comment

01 January 2005 Comments News and comment Alarm bells are ringing at bird clubs across England and Wales after a little-noticed change in the law which came into effect on 1st January. The Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) have been implemented in parallel with the Freedom of Informa...
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Reviews

01 January 2005 Comments Reviews BEGUILED BY BIRDS: IAN WALLACE ON BRITISH BIRDWATCHING By Ian Wallace. Christopher Helm, A&C Black, London, 2004. 272 pages; 170 photographs; 182 colour illustrations. ISBN 0-7136-6535-1 Hardback, £29.99. fans will particularly enjoy the accounts ...
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Notes

01 January 2005 Comments Notes Hunting strategy of Eurasian Sparrowhawk Short-eared Owl preying on Merlin Sky lark using birdwatchienrs as refuge from Merlins White-winged Black Tern feedingon butterflies Song of Common Chaffinch resmeling that of Les...
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