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Rarities committee news

01 January 2008 Comments News and comment Although it is more than two years since Canada Goose was split into two species, Greater Branta canadensis and Lesser Canada Goose B. hutchinsii, neither species is currently on category A of the British List. Both species apparently...

News and comment

01 January 2008 Comments News and comment The discovery of a new bird taxon is always exciting; if it is a wader, and a migratory one at that, it is not only exciting, but also almost unbelievable. David Bakewell and BB Assistant Editor Peter Kennerley are to be congratulated (and envied) for ...

Reviews

01 January 2008 Comments Reviews COLLINS FIELD GUIDE – BIRDS OF THE PALEARCTIC: PASSERINES By Norman Arlott. HarperCollins, London, 2007. 240 pages; 80 colour plates; numerous distribution maps. ISBN 978-0-00-714705-2. Hardback, £25.00. there is currently little available informa...

Optimising digital images

01 January 2008 Comments Main paper Once the shutter has been pressed, most igital photography has opened up a images can be substantially improved by photowhole new world for many birders, editing software. Just about all compact cameras while for seasoned bird photographers come with b...

Should Kermadec Petrel be on the British List?

01 January 2008 Comments ABSTRACT In April 1908, a dark-morph Kermadec Petrel Pterodroma neglecta was reportedly found dead in Cheshire.The record was accepted by BOURC for more than 60 years but was removed from the British List in 1971 because the species was consid...

Mourning Dove on North Ulst: new to Britain

01 January 2008 Comments Atlantic depressions skirting the north of Scotland in September 1999 brought an unprecedented influx of North American waders to the Outer Hebrides. On North and South Uist, these included at least eight Semipalmated Sandpipers Calidris pusilla (a spe...

The role of reintroductions in conserving British birds

01 January 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT There has been increasing interest in recent years in reintroducing birds lost from Britain (or parts of it) as a result of human activities. In many respects, reintroduction is an extension of other `hands-on' approaches to conserving birds, ...

Recent reports

01 January 2008 Comments News and comment This summary of unchecked reports covers early October to early December 2007. ...

British Birds – January 2008

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Variations in Chaffinch Song

01 August 1943 Comments Main paper WORKING at first with four birds (A, B, C and D) I made the following observations on the songs of Chaffinches (FringiUa c. gengleri) in a coastal area of south Devon during the spring of 1942. B and C held adjacent territories and their songs were inter...

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