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What brought about the influx of Siberian Accentors to Europe in autumn 2016? A contribution to the debate

01 December 2019 Comments Letters The autumn of 2016 witnessed an unprecedented westward influx of Siberian Accentors Prunella montanella from their breeding areas. Previously, there had been no more than five records per year in Europe, but during the autumn and winter of 2016/...

Finding Birds in Catalonia

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The Eagle Owl

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Brood management of Hen Harriers

01 October 2019 Comments Letters It was very disappointing to read the recent account of our work on Hen Harrier conservation in News & comment’ (‘Hen Harriers – good news and bad news’; Brit. Birds 112: 427). As the Natural England directors responsible for this wo...

Wing-tagged Red Kites in England

01 October 2019 Comments Letters In Ian Carter’s excellent article on the Red Kite reintroduction in the August edition (Brit. Birds 112: 422–426) he stated that ‘The birds now present do not carry wing-tags’. I understand that he is talking in the context of the Chilte...

An early wild bird marking record

01 July 2019 Comments Letters As noted by, for example, Mead (1974), although formal bird ringing did not begin until the last decade of the nineteenth century, there exists an array of earlier records of the marking, and sometimes later recovery, of wild birds. Ticehurst (1932) wr...

Hunting in Europe

01 June 2019 Comments Letters The recent article on bird hunting in Europe by Hirschfeld et al. (Brit. Birds 112: 153–166) was compelling reading. It was frankly shocking to see the lack of bag data from the UK, and also the lack of any commitment to provide any...