News and comment

01 June 2008 Comments News and comment BirdLife Malta and BirdLife International have warmly welcomed the European Court's decision to order Malta not to open the 2008 spring hunting season for Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur and Common Quail Coturnix coturnix. This is an interim ruling pen...
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Reviews

01 June 2008 Comments Reviews A CLIMATIC ATLAS OF EUROPEAN BREEDING BIRDS By Brian Huntley, Rhys E. Green, Yvonne C. Collingham and Stephen G. Willis. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, 2007. 528 pages; 431 species mapped in colour. ISBN 978-84-96553-14-9. Hardback, £40.00. ...
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Notes

01 June 2008 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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Letter

01 June 2008 Comments Letters I wholly agree with Martin Woodcock and Chris Smout's defence of the reputation of Arthur Newstead, and also their suggestion that once the unsupported implication of fraud is removed, there seems little reason to regard the Cheshire record of Kermadec...
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Letters

01 July 1959 Comments Letters B L A C K B I R D S F E E D I N G ON M A R I N E W O R M S S I R S , -- I can confirm the note by Mr. Roger Harkness (antea, p. 97) on Blackbirds (Turdus merula) feeding on marine worms, strangely enough from the same part of Hampshire--at Hill Head, whic...
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Notes

01 July 1959 Comments Notes Duration of dives of Black-throated Diver.--In Sutherland on -25th May 1955 we were able to make continuous observations for nearly four hours on the diving of a Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica). T h e site was a loch half a mile wide and seven miles ...
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