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01 July 2008 Comments Recent Reports This summary of unchecked reports covers mainly new arrivals between early May and early June 2008. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Species boundaries in the Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gull complex

01 July 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The BOURC Taxonomic Sub-committee (TSC) recently published recommendations for the taxonomy of the Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull complex (Sangster et al. 2007). Six species were recognised: Herring Gull Larus argentatus, L...

British Birds – July 2008

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Recent reports and news

01 January 1958 Comments News and comment By I. J. FERGUSON-LEES In order to give our readers as up-to-date as possible a picture of recent reports of rare birds, of interesting movements and "invasions", and of other news of general interest, it has been decided to try, as an experiment, a month...

Request for information

01 January 1958 Comments Editorials The Scientific Advisory Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology recently decided that publicity should be given in Bird Study, the quarterly journal of the B.T.O., to analyses which will be the subject of future papers in British Birds. We are ple...

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