News and Comment

01 January 2006
Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...
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Letters

01 January 2006
Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...
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Letter

01 April 1981
Comments Letters Tail shape of Bulwer's Petrel M. R. Alibone commented on the apparent lack of wedge shape to the tail of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii {Brit, Birds 73: 217). In April 1971, I saw several Bulwer's Petrels off the bulge of Africa in the vicin...
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Announcements

01 April 1981
Comments Editorials 'A Notebook of Birds -- 1907-1980' This new book--an anthology of 'Notes' and 'Letters' published in British Birds, chosen and with a linking commentary by Dr Jim Flegg--will be published in July 1981 by Macmillan London. It is f...
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Notes

01 April 1981
Comments Notes Cormorants perching on overhead cable Further to Neil Trout's note (Brit. Birds 73: 310), I should like to add an observation of some 60 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo standing together on thick overhead cable near Welney, Norfolk, at...
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