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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News and comment

01 December 2008
Comments News and comment The RSPB has confirmed what fieldworkers had already realised: that some of our seabirds had a catastrophic breeding season in northern Britain in 2008. Data from the RSPB's coastal reserves show that three species, Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla, Arctic T...
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Reviews

01 December 2008
Comments Reviews FRONTIERS IN BIRDING By Martin Garner and friends. BirdGuides Ltd, London, 2008. 192 pages; black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 978-1-898110-47-7. Paperback, £19.95. In my youth, I can remember embracing wholeheartedly a series of articles written by ...
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Letter

01 December 2008
Comments Letters We who learnt our migrants from the Witherby Handbook and post-war observatories were told to be patient when the target was our first `Greenland Wheatear' Oenanthe oenanthe leucorhoa. `None before the last third of April and most in May' was the sum o...
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