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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Foot-and-mouth and birdwatching

01 March 2001 Comments Editorials Foot-and-mouth is the latest in a series of body blows to British farming in recent years. The outbreak of this disease has, however, had ramifications the effects of which extend far beyond those people directly involved with the livestock industry. T...
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Reviews

01 March 2001 Comments Reviews MIGRATION AND INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION OF WADERS: research and conservation on north Asian, African and European flyways International Wader Studies 10. 1998. 500 pages. ISSN 1354-9944. Paperback, £35.00. Copies available from International Wader St...
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News and Comment

01 March 2001 Comments News and comment RSPB Scotland is pressing the Scottish Parliament and Executive to promote large-scale wetlands as a basis for f lood prevention, as well as improving the incentives in agri-environment schemes for positive floodplain management. With predictions that ...
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Letters

01 March 2001 Comments Letters I was not terribly reassured by any of the comments of Mark Avery (Brit Birds 93: 500) in reply to my criticism of the pilot Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis cull and the rationale behind it (93: 394-396). Rather disturbingly, the RSPB's Director of Conse...
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Notes

01 March 2001 Comments Notes On 25th January 1996, on a brief visit to Fareham, Hampshire, I stopped to look at the mudflats. From my car, I saw a number of plastic bags that contained what looked like kitchen waste. The larger bags held several smaller polythene bags. ...
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