Notes

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...
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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...
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Letter

01 April 1981
Comments Letters Tail shape of Bulwer's Petrel M. R. Alibone commented on the apparent lack of wedge shape to the tail of Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii {Brit, Birds 73: 217). In April 1971, I saw several Bulwer's Petrels off the bulge of Africa in the vicin...
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Announcements

01 April 1981
Comments Editorials 'A Notebook of Birds -- 1907-1980' This new book--an anthology of 'Notes' and 'Letters' published in British Birds, chosen and with a linking commentary by Dr Jim Flegg--will be published in July 1981 by Macmillan London. It is f...
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Notes

01 April 1981
Comments Notes Cormorants perching on overhead cable Further to Neil Trout's note (Brit. Birds 73: 310), I should like to add an observation of some 60 Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo standing together on thick overhead cable near Welney, Norfolk, at...
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