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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...

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...

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...

Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2006

01 December 2009 Comments Main paper This is the forty-ninth annual report of the British Birds Rarities Committee. It is also the first report in the post-Mike Rogers era, the last that will be compiled primarily by Pete Fraser, and the last one with an introduction from me. Nigel Hudson...

British Birds – December 2007

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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...

Letters

01 April 1986 Comments Letters Escapes? Some years ago, Derek Goodwin and the late Derrick England published some long comments on the problem for birdwatchers of escaped cage birds (Brit. Birds49: 339-349; 67: 177-197). Since those papers, a new generation of birders has appeared, ...

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