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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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper This is the forty-ninth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. It is also the first report in the post-Mike Rogers era, the last that will be compiled primarily by Pete Fraser, and the last one with an introduction from me. Nigel Hudson...

British Birds – December 2007

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Recent Reports

01 June 1991 Comments News and comment This summary covers the period 12th April to 9th May 1991 (February to 9th May for common migrants; first date listed is date of first report). These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Black Stork Ciconia nigra Sko...

Monthly marathon

01 June 1991 Comments Other When Steve Young supplied the transparency of the wader featured as the sixth stage in this 'Marathon' (plate 7), the competition's compiler queried the photographer's identification, since the bird was 'obviously' a Little Stint Calidris minuta and no...

News and Comment

01 June 1991 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. Timothy Andrews and Michael Entwistle. With great regret, we must report that news from Peru has confirmed that both birders were killed (see previous reports, Bri...

Announcements

01 June 1991 Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year. As in other recent years, entrants had to submit their field notebooks for the judges' perusal. The winners and runners-up in the 1990 competition, organised as usual by the Young Ornithologists' Club and sponsored by ...

European news

01 June 1991 Comments Main paper This twenty-ninth report includes records from 25 countries. We are pleased to be able to draw attention to the addition of Lithuania to the list of countries represented. New contacts in unrepresented West Palearctic countries will be very welcome. Th...

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