News and comment

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...
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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...
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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...
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Recent reports

01 April 1973 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The following summary deals with December 1972 and January 1973, with February taken into account in some cases where relevant. The weather during this time was characterised by its extrao...
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News and comment

01 April 1973 Comments News and comment 1973 All-Ireland Conference It is usually encouraging to see an ornithological conference attracting public attention, but this All-Ireland Conference, held at Newcastle, Co. Down, during 2nd-4th March, perhaps went too far in that it started w...
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Rare Breeding Birds Panel

01 April 1973 Comments Editorials In 1968 the council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds established a subcommittee, known as the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, to collect together in one place the records of rare breeding birds in Britain. This subcommittee consisted of A. W...
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Reviews

01 April 1973 Comments Reviews Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. By Salim Ali and S. Dillon Ripley. Oxford University Press, Bombay. Vol 5 (1972): 276 pages; 10 colour plates; many line drawings and maps. Vol 6 (1971): 245 pages; 8 colour plates; many line drawings a...
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Notes

01 April 1973 Comments Notes Arctic Skuas repeatedly chasing passerines On 24th and 25th July 1971, a weekend of rough, wet weather, I noted eleven and 38 Arctic Skuas Stercorarius parasiticus respectively at Aberlady Bay, East Lothian. They were continually chasing Kittiw...
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