Further news on lead ammunition

01 April 2020 Comments Letters The ingestion of lead from ammunition poisons and kills large numbers of birds in the UK every year and puts at risk the health of frequent consumers of wild game shot using lead ammunition, especially children and pregnant women. Alternative, non-toxi...
Read More

Letters

01 August 1983 Comments Letters The origin of 'twitcher'. Richard Porter (Brit. Birds 75: 537) has traced 'twitcher' back to 1968, but what were 'people who chase rare birds' called before that? My recollection is that before the Second World War they were known as 'pot-hunters', and...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now