News and comment

01 July 2008
Comments News and comment An international campaign has been launched to halt the slaughter of Greenland's nesting seabirds. Thousands of birds have been killed this spring after Greenland's government caved in to hunters and allowed an extra month of shooting. The RSPB, Audubo...
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Notes

01 July 2008
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...
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Letter

01 July 2008
Comments Letters Collinson & Melling (2008) discussed the potential pitfalls of identifying vagrant Iberian Chiffchaffs Phylloscopus ibericus (Brit. Birds 101: 174­188). Some of their statements prompt a correction and a discussion. Their paper showing the breedin...
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Conservation research news

01 July 2008
Comments News and comment The role of avian predators in limiting the numbers of their songbird prey has been a controversial subject for many years. Some argue that the large declines in many songbird populations have been caused by increased numbers of nest predators like Mag...
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Recording areas of Great Britain

01 July 2008
Comments Main paper It has recently become apparent that there are some confusions and anomalies in the way that national journals and organisations are reporting records received from County Recorders or taken from published sources. Examples of the problem can be seen i...
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Review

01 November 1950
Comments Letters Bird Life. By Edward A. Armstrong. (Lindsay Drummond, 1949.) 12/6. Field Study Books : The Lapwing. By E. A. R. Ennion. (Methuen, 1949.) 6/-. These two books, though differing in approach and in scope, have the same audience and end in view. They have bot...
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Notes

01 November 1950
Comments Notes ON January 4th, 1950, we were standing in the road beside Bolney Grange Ltd., Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, watching about 30-40 WoodPigeons (Columba palumbus) feeding under a tree, when we heard the harsh calls of Carrion Crows (Corvus corone). We looked up, ...
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