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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 January 2001 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers the period 13th November 2000 to 1st January 2001. American Wigeon Anas americana Males at Rogerstown (Co. Dublin) and North Slob (Co. Wexford), both remaining through November into December. Black Duck Anas rub...

Monthly marathon

01 January 2001 Comments Other Bearing in mind some of the more extraordinar y guesses submitted for previous photographs in this Monthly Marathon series, such as a Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguinea that, to one contestant, looked like a Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata, it i...

Announcements

01 January 2001 Comments Editorials To recognise an artist for the best set of bird illustrations. Amateur and professional artists are invited to submit four line-drawings (of precise specified dimensions) suitable for publication. The subjects should be birds recorded in the Western Pa...

Reviews

01 January 2001 Comments Reviews THE BIRDS OF NORFOLK By Moss Taylor, Michael Seago, Peter Allard & Don Dorling. Pica Press, Mountfield, Sussex, 1999. 552 pages; 32 colour plates, maps. ISBN 1-873403-86-0. Hardback, £35.00. This comprehensive volume brings up to date the history ...

News and Comment

01 January 2001 Comments News and comment Following four successful meetings in northern Europe (Germany, Denmark, Netherlands and France), the 5th International Gull Meeting (IGM) is now moving south, to Portugal. The dates are 29th March to 1st April 2001, and comfortable accommodation for 8...

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