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 October 1992
Comments News and comment This sumnary covers the period 15th August to 3rd September 1992 These are unchecked reports, not authenticated records. Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis Cape Clear Island (Co. Cork), 21st August. Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva Pagha...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1992
Comments Other It was a Greater Yellowlegs, photographed in Florida, USA, in April by Gordon Langsbury. Of the leading contestants, none fell at this hurdle. The eventual winner of this competition, which is turning into a real endurance test, will be able to choose ...
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News and comment

01 October 1992
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'.  BOC 100. Congratulations! The British Ornithologists' Club was founded on 5th October 1892. Over the past 100 years, the club has provided its members w...
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Reviews

01 October 1992
Comments Reviews The Birds of Oxfordshire. Edited by J. W. Brucker, A. G. Gosler & A. R. Heryet. The Nature Conservation Bureau, Newbury, 1992. 288 pages; 8 colour plates; 150 line-drawings; 92 maps; 57 histograms. £27.95.The species accounts occupy one-third of t...
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ICBP news

01 October 1992
Comments Editorials Puna Grebe new.s Bad news on the Puna Grebe Podiceps taczanowskii, endemic to Lake Junin in Peru and one of the world's most threatened birds. Once abundant, the population was estimated to have dropped to 200-300 individuals in 1987, but terrorist act...
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