News and Comment

01 January 2006
Comments News and comment As 2005 drew to a close, the virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza was reported in poultry in the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine. This was the fourth country in Europe to report bird flu, following outbreaks in October in Romania (dead Mute Swans Cygnus...
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Letters

01 January 2006
Comments Letters I refer to Steve Percival's article on this subject (Percival 2005). By the end of 2004, 16,534 wind turbines were installed in Germany, which provides enormous scope for research on the potential impacts to bird populations. Most of this research has ...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 2001
Comments Other December's photograph (plate 364 in volume 93, repeated here as plate 48) is obviously of a wader/shorebird (depending on which side of the Atlantic you come from) and, judging by its proportions, and by its size in relation to the vegetation in the ba...
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Reviews

01 February 2001
Comments Reviews THREATENED BIRDS OF THE WORLD By BirdLife International. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, 2000. 852 pages; maps, colour illustrations. ISBN 0 946888 39 6. £70.00. Many BB readers travel the World to indulge their pass...
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News and Comment

01 February 2001
Comments News and comment A national census of Mute Swans Cygnus olor will take place in spring 2001, repeating the last one, conducted in 1990. Mute Swans are widespread during the breeding season on all manner of wetlands, including small lakes and, particularly, riv...
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