Search

BB eye – Why birders should be safe and sound

01 April 2019 Comments Editorials Birding has come such a long way since I started, keen and wide-eyed, back in the early 1980s. Information has never been easier to acquire. These days we have books where the illustrations actually look like the birds; optics that produce crisp, sharp...

Redstart hybrids in Europe and North Africa

01 April 2019 Comments Main paper Nicolas Martinez, Bernd Nicolai and Vincent van der SpekAbstract An analysis of 121 wild Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros x Common Redstart P. phoenicurus hybrids from Europe and North Africa is presented, wit...

British Birds April 2019

01 April 2019 Comments Latest issues Redstart hybrids in Europe and North Africa An analysis of wild Black Redstart x Common Redstart hybrids from Europe and North Africa is presented, with an overview of distribution, phenology, habitat, biometrics, phenotypes and v...

News and comment – April 2019

01 April 2019 Comments News and comment Compiled by Adrian Pitches Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of British Birds Fair Isle Bird Observatory destroyed by fire There was shocking news fro...

Red-winged Blackbird in Orkney: new to Britain

01 April 2019 Comments Open Access Abstract ...

Seabird recovery on Lundy

01 April 2019 Comments Main paper Abstract ...

Northern Wheatear on Lundy

01 April 2019 Comments Other ...

Recent reports

01 April 2019 Comments Recent Reports ...

My patch – Thetford

01 April 2019 Comments ...

Notes

01 July 1941 Comments Notes ON May 18th, 1924, my father and I found the nest of a Siskin (Carduelis spinus) at Acharacle, Argyll. It was about twenty feet up on the spreading bough of an exotic fir (species not recorded) in a large garden. When my father climbed to it, both birds ...

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

Subscribe Now