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01 March 2006 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...

Letters

01 March 2006 Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...

Seabirds and pipefish: A request for records

01 March 2006 Comments Editorials Seabirds in the northeast Atlantic usually feed their chicks on small, oil-rich shoaling fish such as sandeels Ammodytes marinus, sprats Sprattus sprattus, herring Clupea harengus and capelin Mallotus villosus. Although many other fish species have bee...

Report on scarce migrant birds in Britain in 2003 Part 2: Short-toed Lark to Little Bunting

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper This is the second part of this, the ninth, annual Scarce Migrants report, which covers the passerine species from Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla to Little Bunting Emberiza pusilla. Part 1 of the report, which dealt with non-passerines, has ...

Has the juvenile plumage of Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?

01 March 2006 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Juvenile Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus exhibit a striking resemblance to Common Buzzards Buteo buteo, even though the two species are not closely related. Both species, but particularly Honey-buzzards, rather frequently fall prey to Northern ...

British Birds – March 2006

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Reviews

01 April 1986 Comments Reviews The Birds of Australia: a book of identification. By Ken Simpson and Nicolas Day. Croom Helm, London, 1985. 352 pages; 128 colour plates; many line-drawings. £25.00. Until the publication of this book, visitors to Australia had the choice of two ...

Recent reports

01 April 1986 Comments News and comment These are largely unchecked reports, not authenticated records. The dates in this report refer to January unless otherwise stated. After two days of unsettled, mild westerlies at the beginning of the month, cold air arrived from the north, brin...

News and Comment

01 April 1986 Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds' . Djibouti II. The Preliminary Report of their second expedition to Djibouti has been prepared by Geoffand Hilary Welch and makes mouthwatering reading—60,897 Ste...

Announcements

01 April 1986 Comments Editorials EXCLUSIVE OFFER TO 'BB' SUBSCRIBERS. 'Shorebirds: an identification guide to the waders of the world' We should like to remind readers that this book can still be ordered at the special reduced prepublication price, avail...

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