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British Birds – June 2006

01 June 2006 Comments Latest issues ...

Editorial: Important Bird Areas

01 June 2006 Comments Editorials ...

The importance of Southwest Greenland for wintering seabirds

01 June 2006 Comments Main paper ...

Nectarivory of Palearctic migrants at a stopover site in the Sahara

01 June 2006 Comments Main paper ...

Splitting headaches? Recent taxonomic changes affecting the British and Western Palearctic lists

01 June 2006 Comments Main paper ...

Pollutants in Merlin eggs and their effects on breeding

01 June 1988 Comments Main paper In view of the declining status of the Merlin Falco columbarius in Britain (Bibby & Nattrass 1986; Newton et al. 1986), we have continued to analyse unhatched eggs for pollutant residues. The findings from eggs collected to 1980 were given in ...

The World's first known juvenile Cox's Sandpiper

01 June 1988 Comments Main paper For once, the North Americans have beaten the British by being first to find a spectacular vagrant Asiatic shorebird away from the Alaskan out-islands. This time we outdid everyone, producing a juvenile Cox's Sandpiper Calidris paramelanotos in Ma...

Diary dates

01 June 1988 Comments Editorials This list covers July 1988 to June 1989.0 9th July ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AGM. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London. Details from the Secretary, OSME, c/o The Lodge, Sandy, Bedfordshire SGI9 2DI.....

Notes

01 June 1988 Comments Notes The Exe Estuary egret of August 1985. On 21st August 1985, we discovered an egret Egretta at the Exe Estuary, Devon. It was a small, wholly white egret with no noticeable plumes. Compared with (memories of) a Little Egret E. garzetta, it appeared to be...

Mystery photographs

01 June 1988 Comments Main paper This raptor is easily identified as a harrier Circus by its long tail and its wing attitude. The dark hood and whitish underwing-coverts suggest that it is an adult male. The pattern of the flight feathers, however, is unlike that of any of the four we...

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British Birds – June 2006

Editorial: Important Bird Areas

The importance of Southwest Greenland for wintering seabirds

Nectarivory of Palearctic migrants at a stopover site in the Sahara

Splitting headaches? Recent taxonomic changes affecting the British and Western Palearctic lists

Pollutants in Merlin eggs and their effects on breeding

The World's first known juvenile Cox's Sandpiper

Diary dates

Notes

Mystery photographs

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